[lit-ideas] Re: For the linguists...(and others)
- From: Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:11:20 -0500
Brings back memories...my Mother used to sing it in the house all the time.
Julie Krueger
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> JL writes
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> It's like when the Americans had that great song to annoy the Japanese:
>> Mares eat oats and the rest of it. This started as a wartime code
>> that a Japanese could NOT break.
>>
>
> Never happen, man.
>
> 'Mairzy Doats is a novelty song composed in 1943 by Milton Drake, Al
> Hoffman and Jerry Livingston. It was first played on radio station WOR,
> New York, by Al Trace and his Silly Symphonists. The song made the pop
> charts several times, with a version by the Merry Macs reaching No. 1
> in March 1944. In addition to its success on the home front, it was also
> a hit with American servicemen overseas, who allegedly used its
> nonsensical lyrics as passwords.'
>
> I used to hear this on the jukebox and on the radio. We thought it was pure
> Glaswegian.
>
> Robert Paul
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