The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-02
In New York
BY 0EOR0E ROSS
0 iWNRA

New York, Jan. = This country will 60 daft before long about the dofiiest song that's come out since "Piccolo Feet Went Tweet, Twoet, on the piceoio, ohl" (Chorus, Re- .frain, Repeat.)
 The song I mean s "Th0 Music Goes Around and Around" which, ct last is catching on, although many of us have been going pleas. antly mad for months listening to tkoso lunatlc lyrics ct c little place called The Onyx Club. They just don't make sense. Listen: "Iou blow through hero and the music goes down and round, oh, on, listen to the jaEE come out" Then repeat that 47 times. (0r more, # you iike.)
 And yot, theFV is not c band an town that hes not picked up this berBerk roundelay. I've heard Sia- tronish ladies 60 dolightfully gega rendering the tune In respectable cafes, and on intimate friend hes been singing out "Oh-lEo, Ho-0h" for days. It's just one of those things. 1s the craze keeps up. MT. Mike Reilly and Mir. nd Farley, who invented it, will have the na- ton in c trance.
 Swinging Into Fame
 How these gentlemen came about the melody as story an itself. Mir. Reilly is 0 sAxophoniBt, MT. Farley c tEumpet- blower and they have both been on tho frlnges of Tin Pan Ale Icy for years. Inspired composition is not in thoir line and, chiefly, they play by ear, holding oil sheet music In contempt. They bang out . song any way they like and play no ct. tention to the notes. The technical word for their brand of Fhythm is Swing" A swing musician doesn't core for D Flats or 0 Minors when they gre written down and my sus. pician is that ho doesn't care much for RachmAninoif and other niu. sical clensmen. A Swing addict holds himself aioof In . cult apart. Hornlng In
 Anyway, Mike Reilly and Ed Far. ley had been stirring Up bedlani ct tho onyx for their supper and try- ing to get along. One night, 90 the story goes, Mike turned to his cole league and Snuttered desconsolately Brother I'd, what's the use9 Where will we land9 We get older every minute and the music goes around and around. You blow through here and blow through there and the customers listen to the jazE come out. So what2 I'm quitting"
 "oh, ho! lEo, ohi", cooed Mir. Reilly. T guess you're right" They returned to their instruments and in c solemn mood put their senti. ments to song. They were 90 carried away by the curious refrain Of sheir extemporaneous dirge that they played it over and over again. By the time that night had turned to dawn, the zany ditty was in the bag. Instead of quitting, the Messrs. Reilly and Farley hung around to discover themselves the creators of the most infectious musical fad since "Yes, We Have No Bananas"
 It has taken several months for 'sThe Music Goes Around and Around" to get around to all the coast -to-coast wave lengths, but try and keep it on now.
 There doesn't seem to be enough wax for sufficient phono- graph records of the song to meet the demand. All the major orches- tra leaders including Guy x,ombardo Jack Denny. Tsham Jones, Ozzie Nelson, Abe Lyman. Ben Bernie. etcetra, feature it in their dance programs. But with this slight dif- ference: They play it from arranged oEchestrations and follow the forln- ila. Reilly and Farley stiil cling to Swing and spontaneous combustion ct the Onyx.