[Dixielandjazz] Yama Yama Man

[BudTuba at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/25/03 2:35:34 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
CoonSander at aol.com writes:

> Does anybody know just what the heck a Yama Yama Man is?  

The song came from a Broadway show called The Three Twins.  I wouldn't be 
surprised if you searched for that you would find even more information.  We 
always save that tune for our Halloween shows.  But we could do live at your 
next Coon-Sanders Bash......ahem.

<A HREF="http://www.ibdb.com/show.asp?ID=8683">Three Twins</A>
<A HREF="http://www.ibdb.com/venue.asp?ID=1199">Herald Square Theatre</A>, (6/15/1908 - Closing date unknown) 
<A HREF="http://www.ibdb.com/venue.asp?ID=1251">Majestic Theatre</A>, (1/18/1909 - Closing date unknown) 
Preview:            Total Previews:     
Opening:    Jun 15, 1908                
Closing:    Closing date unknown        Total Performances: 288 
Category: Musical, Original, Broadway
Comments: 

Opening Night Production Credits

Produced by <A HREF="http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=22722">Joseph M. Gaites</A>.

Music by <A HREF="http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=13507">Carl Hoschna</A>; Book by <A HREF="http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=38041">Charles Dickson</A>; Lyrics by <A HREF="http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=13498">Otto A. Hauerbach</A>; 
Based on the farce "Incog." by: <A HREF="http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=11126">Mrs. R. Pacheco</A>.

Directed by <A HREF="http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=16218">Gus Sohlke</A>.

Karl Hoschna
b. Aug. 16, 1877, Kuschwarda, Bohemia d. Dec. 23, 1911, New York, NY
As a young man, Karl had a scholarship at the Vienna Conservatory, where he 
studied the Oboe. He graduated with honors, and found work in the Austrian 
Army Band (playing the Oboe).In 1896, he emigrated to the U.S. and played 
Oboe in Victor Herbert's band. A very peculiar obsession possessed him at 
this time. It became his belief that the Oboe's double reed vibrations would 
affect his mind. He wrote a letter to Isidor Witmark, a famous Tin Pan Alley 
publisher, asking for any kind of job, menial or otherwise. Witmark hired him 
as a copyist, but he was soon doing arrangements, and even helping Witmark to 
select songs for publication. In 1902, Hoschna met Otto Harbach, then a young 
advertisng man who ambition was to write for the Broadway stage. Two two of 
them began to collaborate. They wrote a score for a musical called 'The 
Daughter of the Desert', which they never produced. They did score three 
other musicals which did reach Broadway, all failures. Brief chronology:
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But in 1908, their 'The Three Twins' opened. The big hit was:
   "Yama Yama Man", lyric by Colin Davis, sung by Bessie McCoy.
   "Cuddle Up A Little Closer", lyric by Otto Harbach

Bud Taylor
Smugtown Stompers
Rochester, NY
Traditional Jazz since 1958






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