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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat's your favorite song from 1922?
"I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise"
- Music by George Gershwin
- Lyrics by Ira Gershwin & B.G. DeSylva
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What's your favorite song from 1922? (Original Post)
red dog 1
Aug 2017
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lapucelle
(18,399 posts)1. Not so much a song, as a moment in time...
Gallagher and Shean of Follies Fame recorded for posterity.
Mr. Shean was the uncle of Leonard, Arthur, Julius, and Herbert.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx_Brothers#Brothers.27_names.2C_family_background.2C_and_lifetimes
Mr. Gallagher's name is still in lights on Broadway.
http://nymag.com/listings/restaurant/gallaghers-steak-house/
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)2. Toot, Toot, Tootsie!
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)3. I'm Just Wild About Harry...
red dog 1
(27,913 posts)4. Good pick!
Music by Eubie Blake
Lyrics by Noble Sissle
written for the Broadway show "Shuffle Along"
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)5. I heard Eubie Blake play in person as a kid...
...talk about seeing history!
kwassa
(23,340 posts)6. A local high school is named after him.
James Hubert Blake.
emulatorloo
(44,268 posts)7. Second Hand Rose - Fanny Brice
Did that one in junior high choir, 1970. Part of our choir director's custom "Rose Medley"