Podcast appearances and mentions of jack yellen

From the first moment I heard this ditty, it became my theme song. I learned to play it - (in a far cruder fashion than Ry, of course) and worked it into my set list. Just like the character Bill in the narrative, - (my name, btw) - my reprobate ways had also been domesticated by love. And, another harmonic convergence: I had even spent a year in Louisville, Kentucky. Jack Yellen, the Jewish-Polish immigrant who wrote these Jazz-age lyrics, also penned Happy Days are Here Again, and Ain't She Sweet. If he had only created these three songs, his oeuvre would have been impressive. His art was another example, like that of Irving Berlin and the Gershwins, of the affinity young Jewish musicians expressed for black culture.  And, like the Semitic moguls of old Hollywood - they became reflectors of America's aspirational self-image.Ry Cooder's Jazz album was not exactly an anomaly - he has always been a musical archeologist, but on this collection he strove for unparalleled authenticity. Check out his jaw dropping rendition of Bix Beiderbecke's In A Mist. Sublime. He's a national treasure, and if the jaunty swing-time on this number doesn't get your feet tapping - check your pulse - you might be dead.

durée : 00:58:37 - "A yiddishe mame" (Lew Pollack / Jack Yellen) (1925) avec comme invité le violoniste et compositeur Éric Slabiak - par : Laurent Valero - "À l'approche de Noël un grand classique de la chanson yiddish "A Yiddishe Mame". C'est la chanteuse et comédienne Sophie Tucker qui l'a popularise, en devenant l'hymne universel des mamans du monde. Chanson reprise par des artistes aussi divers que Billie Holiday ou Joséphine Baker." Laurent Valero - réalisé par : Antoine Courtin

durée : 00:58:37 - "A yiddishe mame" (Lew Pollack / Jack Yellen) (1925) avec comme invité le violoniste et compositeur Éric Slabiak - par : Laurent Valero - "À l'approche de Noël un grand classique de la chanson yiddish "A Yiddishe Mame". C'est la chanteuse et comédienne Sophie Tucker qui l'a popularise, en devenant l'hymne universel des mamans du monde. Chanson reprise par des artistes aussi divers que Billie Holiday ou Joséphine Baker." Laurent Valero - réalisé par : Antoine Courtin

    On this episode, Adrian recorded audio from a panel featuring writer/artist/raconteur Howard Chaykin at HeroesCon 2024 this past weekend.  Moderated by Chris Brennaman of Infinite Realities Comics in Tucker, GA,  the panel follows Chaykin discussing his career, the true origin of his series ‘Black Kiss', Gil Kane, personal transformation and much more. And hey, stay until the end to hear Howard's impromptu performance of ‘Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)' by Jack Yellen. Audio recorded on June 15, 2024 with permission.

A hundred years ago, much of America was having a wild and crazy party. Forgot about the labor wars. Forgot about the spread of Jim Crow and the KKK marching in Washington. Forgot about the doors banging shut on immigrants.Don't be a party pooper, jake. The war was over. The plague of the “Spanish Flu” was declining. The stock market was soaring. Oh sure, alcohol was still prohibited, but… shhhhh, wink, wink, nod, nod … we know a place …It was The Roarin' Twenties. Flappers. Raccoon coats. Cars. Radios. Records. Jazz! And Here Comes JackWhat a great time to be a songwriter. Into that happy, boozy blur of an age walked young Jack Yellen. Born to a Jewish family in Raczki, Poland, Jack was 5 when his family bought him to America. Reared in Buffalo, NY, he began writing songs in high school.Later, after graduating from the University of Michigan in 1913, Yellen worked as a reporter for The Buffalo Courier, but he continued writing songs on the side. Before long, it was journalism that was on the side as his music moved front and center.Actually, Jack got a jump on the jazz. Hits came quickly for Jack, who seemed to have a feel for the Twenties even before the Twenties arrived. Collaborating with George L. Cobb on Tin Pan Alley, Yellen wrote a string of “Dixie” songs, such as “Alabama Jubilee” and “Are You from Dixie?” both in 1915. His real royalty gold, though, was struck when he teamed up with Milton Ager. They entered the music publishing business as part owners of the Ager-Yellen-Bornstein Music Co., for which Jack penned some of the signature songs of the era.“Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now),” “Hard-Hearted Hannah, the Vamp of Savannah,” “Ain't She Sweet?,” “Happy Feet,” and “Happy Days Are Here Again” all were Jack Yellen originals.Washington at Valley Forge…And right in middle of that rush of riches came our our all-time favorite of Jack's creation, “Crazy Words, Crazy Tune. (Vo Do De O).” Yellen and Ager wrote it in 1926. The earliest known versions of the song were recorded on Oct. 29, 1926, by Irving Aaronson and the Commanders, and on Feb. 3, 1927, by The Varsity Eight, a pseudonym for The California Ramblers, which included legend-to-be Tommy Dorsey on trombone. The song launched onto the goofy lyrics stage 30 years before its hey day in the 1950s. (I'll see you ‘Vo Do De O' and raise you a ‘Be-bop-a-lula,' a ‘Shama lama ding dong' and a ‘wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom'”)Soon “Crazy Words, Crazy Tune” became a core song for hokum and jug bands around the world. In fact, we learned it from Jim Kweskin's jug rendition in 1963.Our Take on the TuneThe Flood always has a few novelty tunes in its back pocket, either to liven up a show or maybe to just give ourselves a laugh at the weekly rehearsal. And this one is, of course, is how we get all that big grant money, because it's about history. Well, sort of. There is some question of whether George Washington ever played ukulele, but we're pretty sure he knew a red-hot mama or two ….Flood LoreIncidentally, the song also plays a small role in a Flood Lore. Back in October 2014, the band was part of Marshall University's wonderful stage production of “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” doing a 30-minute pre-show set at each performance of the play's run in the beautiful Joan C. Edwards Theater. Click the button below for a story that grew out of that fun week of shows: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

Our election special: in more ways than one! Abraham Lincoln called the right to vote "the jewel of liberty, within the family of freedom". We 100% agree. Hear us discuss some historical election trivia, and -- shudder! -- we give our opinions, and our (first-ever!) endorsement. Support this podcast HISTORICAL REFERENCES: Unfortunately, because of limitations on the length of our show notes, by our host website, we cannot provide a list of our reference sources, on this page. However, we will be happy to provide that information, in regard t this episode, upon your request, by email: ForgottenNewsPodcast@gmail.com GUEST VOICES: PSA Voice – Moxie LaBouche, host of Your Brain on Facts podcast. Mark Twain - Lec Zorn - free lance actor and voice artist Anonymous associate of Tim Sullivan - Jerry Kokich, free-lance actor & voice artist. MISCELLANEOUS: Host Intro – Nina Innsted, host of the Already Gone podcast. Exit Aphorism - Source: Original author Unknown. Found in random online postings, on Twitter and Facebook. Aphorism voice - Kit Caren, co-host, Forgotten News Podcast. MUSIC: Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech.com – Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses / by 3.0 At Rest At Rest The Curtain Rises I Knew A Guy Personal Recordings of Music Box: Happy Days Are Here Again (composed by Milton Ager and Jack Yellen, 1929). This Land Is Your Land (Woody Guthrie, composer, 1940). Paul Robeson (deceased): The House I Live In (1946). All Sound Effects Are From Freesound.org. HEY! CONTACT US: E-Mail: ForgottenNewsPodcast@gmail.com Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Forgotten-News-Podcast Twitter: @NewsForgotten @KitCaren @xoxojessicaxoxo

Lyricist Jack Yellen is featured on this week's episode. From Eddie Cantor to Paul Whiteman to Shirley Temple. 

Sophie Tucker was one of the 20th century's most successful and highest paid performers. A singer and humorist, she transitioned successfully through vaudeville, recordings, Broadway, radio, movies, nightclubs and finally television. Born into a Jewish family that immigrated from Eastern Europe, her parents ran a kosher restaurant in Hartford’s Front Street district. Many of the threads that run through her life resonant with women now including body positivity, female agency, an artist’s control of their own work and career as well as a rags to riches immigrant success story. This episode includes snippets from three of her most famous songs-“One of These Days” by African American composer Sheldon Brooks; “I’m the Last of the Red Hot Mama’s” by Milton Agar and Jack Yellen, and “My Yiddishe Momme” by Jack Yellen. Tucker never forgot Hartford and contributed to numerous local charities. She left almost 400 scrapbooks documenting her full career to the New York Public Library. She was inducted into the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame in 1999. https://www.cwhf.org/inductees/sophie-tucker For more information and photos go to the website of Connecticut Explored at https://www.ctexplored.org/sophie-tucker-last-of-the-red-hot-mamas/ Tor read more about her mother and the “Handkerchief Brigade” go to https://www.ctexplored.org/the-handkerchief-brigade/ Look for a new online exhibition in late Sept, 2020 on the website of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford at https://jhsgh.org/ Mary M. Donohue is the Asst. Publisher of Connecticut Explored, the magazine of Connecticut history.  She has documented Connecticut’s architecture, built environment and pop culture for over 30 years. This episode was produced by Mary Donohue and engineered by Patrick O’Sullivan. To hear more episodes of Grating the Nutmeg subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, iHeartRadio or at gratingthenutmeg.libsyn.com. And for more great Connecticut history stories, subscribe to Connecticut Explored, the magazine of Connecticut history, at ctexplored.org

Listen Up! Welcome to podcast number 205. Isn't that how many electoral votes Mitt Romey got?Happy Thanksgiving!Rich corrects an error from the last show where he incorrectly called the Big Green song "Disruption," when it is really "Disruptive"Paul discusses Land Of The LostWe discuss the Hostess snack foods situationPaul Saw Mitt Romney at a gas station. Or what is really Elvis?We discuss the Elmo/Kevin Clash SituationTune 1: The Narrator by the DoneforsJohan Bruyneel and his lavish living with ill-gotten moniesJohn McCain missed an inteligence briefingPapa John Schnatter changes his storyThe Johan Bruyneel Twitter post that was the inspiration for this topicTune 2: Ain't She Sweet as performed by Miss Rose & Her Rhythm Percolators (written by Milton Ager and Jack Yellen)We discuss the Mars Curiosity Rover discovery, that hadn't been released yetWill you be shopping on Black Friday in order to be able to see the Walmart Strike?See you on the flip side!Some of these sounds were used in the making of this podcast.

The songs of lyricist, Jack Yellen, including: Happy Days Are Here Again, Ain't She Sweet, Are You From Dixie, Happy Feet and I Wonder What's Become Of Sally. Performers include: Sophie Tucker, Al Jolson, Paul Whitman, Kaufman & Murray and Alice Faye.

Wow a whole year of UkeyLove's ukulele open mic night. There has been some special moments some captured on these podcasts most will only ever be appreciated live.As its a birthday edition podcast there are more songs than usual and it is slightly longer as well.Enjoy this great line up.The Fleas: Plastic Jesus / Chocolate Jesus medley (Ed Rush and George Cromarty / Tom Waits)Ally McFlea: Donald Where's Yer Troosers (Scottish Traditional)Colin Chambers: Ain't She Sweet (jazz standard written by Milton Ager & Jack Yellen 1927)Fred Stead: The Green Door (Bob Davie & Marvin Moore)Alan Chan: Jambalya (Hank Williams)Philip, Meena & Morwenna: Daydream Believer (The Monkees)Caroline Grannell: Black Cab (Jens Lekman)Uke Gnome: The Man Who Sold the World (David Bowie)David Stevens: Wild in the Country (Elvis Presley)Fang: Same Old Blues Again (John Lee Hooker)Ricky and Kitty: Such Great heights (Postal service)Gavin and Paul: I Want You Back (Jackson 5)Mark: Common People (Pulp)Pitt: Small Axe (Bob Marley)Quincy, Brian & Ally McFlea: A Message to You, Rudy (The Specials)UkeyLove Last Thursday of the monthCurrent release: UkephoricReleases Coming soon: Planetzim and Grainne O'KillThanks and much UkeyLove