"If you go down to the woods today.." has reminded me that a favourite 78 in
our home had "The Teddybears' picnic" on one side & in a minatory sotto voce
"Hush, hush, hush, here comes the Bogeyman" on the other ~ which went on
"don't let him come too close to you, he'll catch you if he can". Whole
lotta Bogeymen around these days. And quite a few bearish phenomena. Talking
lions are still at a premium, though. Does anyone remember "Sparkey", in
which a little boy practising is terrified by a talking piano? And
absolutely symbolic of the communication gulf between us all, darlings, is
another early memory, the mountie yodelling across the canyon "And I'm
calling yóoo - oo-oo-óoo-oo-oo-óoo" in _Rose Marie_. Because he didn't have
anything to say, either. (_My Musical Autobiography_ Chap.1, by M.J.Walker.
To be contd.)
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