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16 Oct 00 - 06:10 PM (#320219) Subject: Hard-Boiled Rose From: M. Ted (inactive) Looking for anything I can find, lyrics, MIDI, wav. MP3 or just a reference. This is the song that Gypsy Rose Lee sang as a child in vaudeville, and I remember having heard it, years ago, but I can't find anything anywhere-- |
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16 Oct 00 - 06:22 PM (#320237) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Hard-Boiled Rose From: Zebedee Not much I'll admit, but this page about the 'Happiness Boys' gives details of a release of the song,(Serial Number: Victor 19340) issued on June 20,1924 A tiny bit of help, maybe? Zeb |
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16 Oct 00 - 08:32 PM (#320348) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Hard-Boiled Rose From: Joe Offer freshen |
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17 Oct 00 - 03:11 PM (#321051) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Hard-Boiled Rose From: M. Ted (inactive) Thanks, Zebedee--Interesting link, and it is located at a very interesting site-- |
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18 May 11 - 11:05 AM (#3156343) Subject: Lyr Add: HARD BOILED ROSE (Dubin/McHugh/Mills/Dash From: Jim Dixon You can hear two versions by the Happiness Boys. YouTube has a copy of Edison Diamond Disk 51357-R, which I used for the following transcription. The Internet Archive version, apparently from Victor 19340, is somewhat different; the verses are in a different order and some lines are omitted. It is a noise-reduced copy. YouTube also has a somewhat folk-processed, countrified version by Wilmer Watts & The Lonely Eagles from 1929, titled SHE'S A HARD BOILED ROSE. HARD BOILED ROSE Words and music by Al Dubin, Jimmy McHugh, Irving Mills and Irwin Dash ©1924 As sung by The Happiness Boys (Billy Jones & Ernest Hare) Talk about your Broadway Roses, And Roses of Washington Square, And Roses who powder their noses, And Roses who henna their hair— Each Rose is a beautiful dream, But we know a Rose that's a scream. She's a hard-boiled Rose, Ev'rybody knows. She can "yes" you to death while you're spending your dough, But when you are short, how the girl can say "no"! Just a hard-boiled Rose, She says "dese" and "doze." When she was just a baby 'bout seven months old, Her father spanked her for something, I'm told. She jumped from her cradle and knocked Father cold. She's a hard-boiled Rose. She's the kind of a girl you can never forget. She carries a leopard around for a pet. Now she's not much for bracelets and those kind of things. She'll turn down a diamond that anyone brings, 'Cause she wears brass knuckles instead of gold rings. She's a hard-boiled Rose. Many a heartbroken flapper Has cried over some ugly dub(?), But Rosie goes after them diff'rent; She makes them behave with a club. Whenever they trifle with Rose, They flirt with a punch in the nose. She's a hard-boiled Rose, Ev'rybody knows. She drinks tea from a saucer instead of a cup. If you don't do likewise, she thinks you're stuck up. Just a hard-boiled Rose, She says "dese" and "doze." An old-fashioned house party is her great delight, But somehow or other she doesn't feel right Unless it ends up in a free-for-all fight. She's a hard-boiled Rose. Once she went out joyriding with some guy named Jack, And strange to relate, it was him who walked back. Her friend's a prizefighter; he's one guy who's tough, And he was her sweetheart; that ain't any bluff, But he had to quit her 'cause she was too rough. She's a hard-boiled Rose. [Also recorded in 1929 by under the title SHE'S A HARD BOILED ROSE.] |