Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-01-08

past was due largely to the warlike
and adventurous spirit of the times.
During the civil war both sides were
prolific in song making. The South
made the first great hit with, MARY
land, My Maryland" The Bonnie
Blue Flag" was tho Southern national
air, and was to the boys in gray what
yankee Doodle" was to tue boys in
blue. The Southern women ardenily
took it up, and through every city
rang the chorus:
Hurrahl hurrahl for Southern rights OF
war,
Hurrahi for the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears
the single star.
OF the sentimental songs Of the war
period, the most popular Tere FAIRY
Bell" "Annie of the Dell,,' Just
Before the Battle Mother" ITO the
Bell for Lovely Ncll," and "When
This Cruel War is Over" In the
North "Wait for the Wagon" and
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp. the Boys
Are Marching" had great success
during the same period, and the
others that ran riot through camp and
fireside were "Mary Blane,' cold
Cabin Home" "Fair, Fair, With
Golden Hair" and "Daisy Dean"
Who has 70 gotten "Daisy Dean" and
its wistful chorus:
None knew thee but to love thee,
Thou dear one OF my heart,
Thy memory is ever fresh aud green:
The wild tiowers may wither
And foud hearts he broken,
Still love thee, my darling, Daisy Dean.
A beautiful song, truly pathetic,
obtained great popularity in both the
North and the South during the War.
This WAS Florence Perey's "Rock Me
to Sleep, Mother"
TIE South produced two war songs
that evince genuine POETIC taleut and
have been accorded unstinted praise
by the critics. They are "Fhe Con-
ouered Banner" and "All Quiet Alon.
the Potomac Tonight" the first
named by Father Ryan and the las'
by Lama Fountaine. One OF the
most pathetic poems that appeareh
during the war was Somebody's Dar-
ling" 1t ran thus:
Into the ward OF the whltewashed halls,
Where The dead AID the dying lay,..
Wounded by bayOneta, shells aud balls,
Somebody's darling was borne one day;
Somebody's darling, SO young AMI brave,
Wearing yet OH his sweet, pale face.
The ling'ring light OF his boyhoods grace.
The circus clown was the great pro-
mulgator of popular music during and
just after the war. He was then in
the full blaze Of his glory. Since
then the blaze has degenerated to
spark, and that is threatening to 60
out. But twenty years ago he was the
biggest attraction in tho ring, and his
song sold like shares in a wildcat
mining scheme.
The war songs were succeeded by
what might be termed the Billyemer-
sonian epoch. These we're the days
when the "Big Sunfower" and Love
Among the Roses' were epidemic
The agile Billy was the pioneer of the
genteel song-and dance business, and
when he sang:
feel Just as happy as big suu0,ws:
That Mods ami bonds in this lcsszes,
nd my heart IL a. lisn5 as TIA, vial that
blows
The leaves from or the trses.es.
he was pronounced unappr0achable.
OF the same date is that ridlcnlous
compos ton, Captain jerks of the
Horse Marines" w. Fl. Llnga'd
brought it over from London and first
sang it in his lightning changes. Lin
gard has never been surpassed in his
act OF Lightning chang =, and while
he maintained intimate relations with
"Capta'n n jerks" he prospernd VIII n
he attempted something higher he
pot i,t, troublp. "Pat MollOy ~
"The Charming Young Man on the
Flying Trapeze," "The Dnk Girl
Dressed in Blue" +" ''The Fellow that
Looks Like Me-" "In the Bowery,"
and ~'The Yellow Girl that
Winked at Me" were widely sung
at that time. The invasion of LYDIA
Thorn pson and her British blondes III
1858 was followed by deluge O,
English music hall songs. About this
time the topical song began to appear,
Tony Pastor and his imitators prefer
ring that sort OF composition. In the
early 7O's the big successes were !:
Little Fraud" 81 Feel So Awful
Jolly When the Band Begins to Play"
"Cham payne Charlie" =" The Multi
gan Guards" "The Cottage by the
Sea-" Killarney" "Good.b bye Char.
lie," "ren thousand Miles Away"
and "Jennie, the Pride of Kildare. "
Then comes "My GAL" "strolling on
the Sands" "There's Letter in the
Candle" and since then the quantity
has increased and the quality de
creased in the same ratio Atlanta
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