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

[Frear, Ruth]

According to the Database of Recorded American Music
 http://dram.nyu.edu/dram/Objid/4915

it was composed by Angelo A. Asher and Richard Morton in 1892.

"enormously popular in the early 1890s:"
http://heftone.com/orchestra/ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay

See some Wombat discussion here:
http://www.wombatfile.com/archives/256.html

More detail on pages 38 and 39 of the liner notes to "The Hand That
Holds the Bread" (New World Records 80267):
http://www.newworldrecords.org/linernotes/80267.pdf#search=%22%22ta%20ra
%20ra%20boom%22%20richard%20morton%20popularity%22


Ruth A. Frear
Senior Information Specialist
Research/Library Services Group
CCH Incorporated, a Wolters Kluwer business
2700 Lake Cook Road, Riverwoods, IL 60015
847.267.2798 (voice); 847-267-2516 (fax)
ruth.frear at wolterskluwer.com

 


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:project-wombat-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org] On Behalf Of
Mary Barna
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 10:57 AM
To: Project Wombat
Subject: [PW] ? Ta Ra ra boom D A

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.

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