[Dixielandjazz] Songs that are takeoffs of other songs

[Charles Suhor]

 From the early R&B repertoire, there was a sequel--"Dance with Me, 
Annie," then "Annie Had a Baby (Can't Dance No More)." Honest,--Charlie 
Suhor


On May 18, 2005, at 3:26 PM, martno1 at aol.com wrote:

> Bud mentioned I Didn't Raise my Son to be a Soldier in his list of 
> tunes, and it reminded me of some of the take-offs written about it. I 
> didn't raise my son to be a Soldier was popular during America's 
> isolationist phase before we entered WWI. When we entered the war 
> things changed, and there were several songs written along the lines 
> of I'm Proud to Raise my Boy to be a Soldier and I'm Proud to Raise My 
> Girl to be a Nurse. (All heroic Tin Pan Alley women in WWI seemed to 
> be either nurses or doughnut girls). Then the humorists took over and 
> came out with I Didn't Raise my Car to be a Jitney and I Didn't Raise 
> my Dog to be a Sausage.
>      A friend of mine and I, just for the fun of it, are putting 
> together a packet of such takeoff songs. Like Dardanella and 
> Dardenella Blues (same for Collegiate and Yes, We Got no Bananas), I'd 
> Like to Kill the Guy Who Write the Stein Song, I've Got a Gal Who's 
> Better than Sal, I'm The Good Man who Was So Hard to Find, I Found the 
> Lost Chord. Also we're putting in some songs that evolved out of an 
> earlier version, such as Yellow Dog Rag becoming Yellow Dog Blues, 
> Willie the Peeper becoming Willie the Weeper, You're a Grand Old Rag 
> hastily being yanked and retitled You''re a Grand Old Flag, etc. 
> Anybody have any good contributions?
> Audrey Van Dyke
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