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

[Charles Early]

I recall a PBS program about Irish Americans in which Frank and Malachi 
McCourt talked about a turn-of-the-last-century morals crusader named 
Parker who had hired a private detective to investigate a burlesque house 
of doubtful repute.  The detective wound up on stage with the girls, and 
the McCourt brothers sang a verse commemorating the incident:

Doctor Parker's on the floor,
Playing leapfrog with a whore,
Tarara Boom De Ay,
Tarara Boom De Ay.


At 05:56 PM 10/3/2006, you wrote:
>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
>
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