[lit-ideas] Re: For the linguists...(and others)
- From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:23:27 +0000 (GMT)
mairzydoats made its way here too, Robert, and still runs through my head
occasionally. I'd no idea it was American, but it seems more bucolic-English
than Glaswegian to me
Judy Evans, Cardiff
--- On Wed, 25/8/10, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: For the linguists...(and others)
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wednesday, 25 August, 2010, 21:05
> JL writes
>
> > 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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