A QUESTIONNAIRE ON POPULAR SONGS

MARC CONNELLY

How Many of These Can You Answer?

1. Which was the first of the songs, the burden of whose refrains was the spelling of a word?

2. Name three contemporaneous songs, almost equally popular, which praised three equally well-known brands of a departed beverage.

3. Who was the most famous absent lover of the songs of the beginning of the century?

4. What song had the first "patter" chorus?

5. What well-known playwright wrote the 9ong called Dearie?

6. Which was the first of the deluge of "Indian" songs which occurred about twenty-five years ago?

7. Who sang and popularized Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl?

8. To what popular tune was the following parody sung:

Carnegie, Carnegie,

Sitting in his library;

Cassie Chadwick on his knee.

Carnegie, Carnegie.

Sandy Andy, you're a dandy!

Carnegie?

9. What popular American song books were published every few months for almost twenty-five years?

10. What popular song, published in 1910, suddenly became popular again, especially as a dance tune, ten years later?

11. What was the highest price ever paid a song-writer for the publication rights of a song?

12. What song written by the brother of Theodore Dreiser is as popular as his Banks of the Wabash?

13. What queen wrote a song which became internationally popular and is still frequently heard?

14. In what popular song was the first reference to wireless telegraphy?

1 5. What was the most popular song of 1923?

16. Karama and several other popular songs were written by the niece of a President of the United States. Do you remember her name?

17. What well-known motion picture magnate wrote the words of My Brudda Sylvest?

(Answers Will Be Found on Page 124)

ANSWERS TO POPULAR SONG QUESTIONNAIRE ON PAGE 58

1. C-H-I-C-K-E-N.

2. Budweise's a Friend of Mine, Under the Anheuser-Busch and Down Where the Wurtzburger Flows.

3. Bill Bailey, the hero of two very popular songs: Ain't Dat a Shame and Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey?

4. Take Me Up With You, Dearie, by Junie McRee and Albert Von Tilzer.

5. Clare Kummer.

6. Hiawatha.

7. Marie Dressier.

8. Tammany.

9. The Delaney Song Book published from 1892 until 1916 at 117 Park Row, New York.

10. Chinatown, My Chinatown.

11. Leo Feist paid George M. Cohan $25,000 for the rights to Over There.

12. My Gal Sal, usually known as Frivolous Sal. By Paul Dreiser.

13. Lilluokulani of Hawaii, who wrote Aloha Oe.

14. Mister Dooley.

And young Marconi eats macaroni With Mister Dooley, ooley, ooley, oo.

15. Yes, We Have No Bananas.

16. Mabel McKinley.

17. Jesse Lasky.

(EDITOR'S NOTE: All the songs mentioned in this questionnaire were written since 1900)