[PW] Re: ? Ta Ra ra boom D A

[Dennis Lien]

At 10:57 AM 10/3/2006, you wrote:
>The song.  Patron wants to know when the song became popular and why.
>"Was it from the Can Can or for a political campaign or what?" I
>couldn't look it up online because I don't know if the spelling is
>correct.
>
>******************************************************
>Mary Barna, Director

Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay.

I think it goes back to circa 1900 or before music halls, and this
site/book indicates as much:

http://www.ox.ac.uk/blueprint/2004-05/3006/09.shtml

(Ta Ra Ra Boom, D.A. was of course the short-lived television series
about a stripper who gets elected district attorney; hilarity ensues.)

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien at umn.edu