<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I just looked up the origin of the song, and I was wrong—it’s a rural place, with a quaint story. See the link below. I still feel that Phil Harris was an urbane performer (“Rugged But Right”…) often with a touch of self-irony, with jokes about his alcoholism. “Solid, Jackson!”<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Charlie</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.dumaschamber.com/content/legend-ding-dong-daddy" class="">http://www.dumaschamber.com/content/legend-ding-dong-daddy</a><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 17, 2016, at 9:36 PM, Charles Suhor <csuhor@zebra.net> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Phil Harris made a hip, hit record of the song in the 40s. “I’m a peach pie poppa from ping pong prairie/ Man, y’oughta see me strut…” Kind of slickly urban, though.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Charlie</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 17, 2016, at 7:45 PM, Les Elkins <<a href="mailto:leslie.r.elkins@gmail.com" class="">leslie.r.elkins@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">I'm a Ding Dong Daddy from Dumas is a fairly simple tune that's fun and not done often. It was performed by Bob Wills, also Louis, and there are a couple of entertaining early big band recordings of it as well.<br class=""><br class=""></div>-Les Elkins<br class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all" class=""><br class="">-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><font style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;" size="-0" face="Arial" class="">"NEVER use a maj7 chord in any bar that is named after a deceased NASCAR <br class=""> driver, a large-calibre firearm, or an intoxicated farm animal." <br class="">-Rev. Billy C. Wirtz's Universal Chord Law</font><div class=""></div></div>
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