The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-09
FALL STYLES IN SONGS
Everything in the Line IL Now
Coon"
THE RAGE FOR RAG TIME"
Shows No Signs of Diminished Favor.
The Georgia Camp Meeting"
ELI Green's Cake
Walk"

The fall styles in songs are on dis
play and they show no novel effects.
Everything is coon" just as IL has
been for almost three years. The rage
for rag time" shows no signs II dim
mutton in popular favor. IL the recep-
ton OF the opponents of s~yncopated
music in the rtheaters is any gauge,
and the spread of the fascinating mu-
steal Jingle through private homes Is
marked. Thousands of ~pianists who a
year ago heard rag time" for the first
time at a vaudeville theater or ROOF
garden now sit down to their pianos
in their parlors and rattle of The
Georgia Camp Meeting or f Green's
Cake Walk as unconcernedly as the
girls of 10 years ago did the Maid
ems Prayer" No pianist Is complete
these days without at least a superb
cial knowledge of rag time. and the
most common request nowadays. even
in the most select homes, where the
origin of the attractive musical no
tation is not dreamed OF, is play a
rag"
The distinguishing feature of the
modern coon" song Is the passing OF
what might be called the neat" song
of less thar three years ago. songs not
written in strict rag time. of the style
exemplihed by Barney aFagin's great
hits, MY Gal Is a High Born Lady
and I'm Happy My Baby's Come to
Town." and the coming OF the rough
and ready songs of the Take Your
Clothes and Co. order. songs depicting
| the seamy side of life, II the motif
be incurred into. Gradually these
song have come up from the slums
n the "levee" and come into popu-
larfty. Many OF the airs which are
now being played and sung in homes
all over the country have for years
been familiar to FOUNDERS who made
occasional excursions into the red
light district, where they were fitted
with words which made a hardened
campaigner in those districts raise
his eyebrows and think about going
home. Even now ii comes with some
thing of a shock to hear these airs, 50
familiar in those surroundings OF vice
and crime, played in a pretty parlor
by a charming girl, even though the
words now sung to them VIII bear
inspection. The airs are catchy and
easily remembered and bright song
writers realized that were the airs to
be dragged out of the slums and re-
habilitated with decent words they
would take" On this order is the
sons with which Lew Dockstader made
a hit a few months ago, II Want My
Lulu" For years that has been known
as THE Hop Song and has been sung
in every rag shop in Chicago. Who
wrote the music is a question OF doubt.
1t has been redited to Ben Harvey
and to Jake Schaefer. both rag time
players OF great merit. The old hop
song" went something like this:
Wake up. John, for you've slept.stoo
Wake up, John, for it's half-past eight;
Wake up, John, and open up the shop,
/ want to get a card of hop.
oh, in the morning you'll hear 'em
say
cant wait all day,
No more I'll stay"
oh. in the morning you'll hea 'em
Wake up, John Chinaman."
Joe Sinclair. who makes a speciality
of writing and singing rag time songs.
realized that this air would make a
hit and he wrote II Want My Lulu"
to the air and Dockstader sang IL.
The chorus goes like this:
want my Lulu. my baby Lu,
/ love her true,
Indeed / do:
] want my Lulu. my baby Lu,
I'd rather die than lose Lulu.
<hit " oAAN " 6'b6 i11 ,NNs
written to the catchy tune and IL is
making a great hit with Haverly's
MINISTRIES through the country. II Is
credited to Ben Harvey and is called
Iii Hung Chang" The literay merits
of the composition are not at all hat
they might be, but II fits the old hop
song" tune, and here II is:
I went to England to keep out of Jail;
There | got acquainted with the prince
o. Vale.
Stole his watch and his diamond pin:
He called a copper and he run me in.
Took me to the jailhouse by the hand,
SEM me over to fight Japan.
Cinnamon and Japs look all alike,
And l couldn't help it, for the pipe
went out.
oh. in the morning I'll dream of thee.
With a big bowl full
OF chop suey;
And when I've smoked and had my
Oh, Ii Hung Chang. I'm going to
leave.
This Is the evolution of most of the
coon songs of to-day. though they
are comparatively new to the theater-
going public. Sol Bloom. the music
publisher, has his racks full OF coon
songs which are strangely familiar 70
men about town, who have whistled
the airs for years in strict privacy.
OF an entirely different class is one
of the new songs Bloom has published,
which is called There's No Coon
That's One-Half So Warm" There Is
a story back OF the air OF that fascin-
ating rag" The music was writer
by G.. j. Couchois and the facts would
seem to prove that rag time is inner.
ent in the African. Away back In
worlds fair days. when rag time was
unheard of outside Of saloons and
other resorts patronized by colorec
people and theirs who even hen had
the rag fever. long before Ben Harvey
started out on the stage and infected