<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 1/25/03 2:35:34 PM Eastern Standard Time, CoonSander@aol.com writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Does anybody know just what the heck a Yama Yama Man is? </BLOCKQUOTE></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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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. <B>But we could do live at your next Coon-Sanders Bash......ahem.</B><BR>
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<A HREF="http://www.ibdb.com/show.asp?ID=8683">Three Twins</A><BR>
<A HREF="http://www.ibdb.com/venue.asp?ID=1199">Herald Square Theatre</A>, (6/15/1908 - Closing date unknown) <BR>
<A HREF="http://www.ibdb.com/venue.asp?ID=1251">Majestic Theatre</A>, (1/18/1909 - Closing date unknown) <BR>
<B>Preview:</B> <B>Total Previews:</B> <BR>
<B>Opening:</B> Jun 15, 1908 <BR>
<B>Closing:</B> Closing date unknown <B>Total Performances:</B> 288 <BR>
<B>Category: </B>Musical, Original, Broadway<BR>
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<B>Opening Night Production Credits</B><BR>
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Produced by <A HREF="http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=22722">Joseph M. Gaites</A>.<BR>
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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>.<BR>
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Directed by <A HREF="http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=16218">Gus Sohlke</A>.<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Verdana" LANG="0"><B>Karl Hoschna</B><BR>
b. Aug. 16, 1877, Kuschwarda, Bohemia d. Dec. 23, 1911, New York, NY<BR>
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:<BR>
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But in 1908, their 'The Three Twins' opened. The big hit was:<BR>
"Yama Yama Man", lyric by Colin Davis, sung by Bessie McCoy.<BR>
"Cuddle Up A Little Closer", lyric by Otto Harbach<BR>
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