When the Kaiser Does the Goose-step to a Good Old American Rag
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Title | When the Kaiser Does the Goose-step to a Good Old American Rag |
Composer | Neander, Harold |
Lyricist | Frost, Jack [Harold G.] |
Publisher | Frank K. Root & Co. [McKinley Music Co., Owners] |
Place of Publication | Chicago (Ill.) |
Year of Publication | 1917 |
Date of Copyright | 1917-10-22 |
Physical Description | 1 score, voice and piano ([1], 2–3, [1] p.) |
Comment | Although this song was advertised from December 1917 through March 1919, it had little impact in the entertainment world. In instrumental arrangements and amateur performances, however, it was moderately popular throughout this period. |
Historical Note | The first of two printings, distinguished by back covers, issued by mid-December 1917, when the song was advertised. Arrangements for band and orchestra were published by the end of 1917, and the text was included in Feist’s “Songs the Soldiers and Sailors Sing” (© 1918 01 26). |
Musical Note | Billed as a “one-step” in instrumental arrangements (but marked “allegretto” in the vocal score), this comic novelty incorporates ragtime and stop-time rhythms and extensive chromatic inflections. Textual references to Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever”, the Six Brown Brothers, “Alexander’s [ragtime] band”, and “Dixie” are not realized by musical quotations, though “Yankee Doodle” appears briefly in the refrain. |
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Repository | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sousa Archives and Center for American Music |
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Back Cover Description | Advertisement for “Late Popular Successes”. Four rows of samples: Top row: samples and covers for If You’ve Never Been in Dreamland You’ve Never Been in Love (© 1917, advertised 1917 06 14) Down the Sunset Trail to Avalon (© 1917, advertised 1917 02 07) Second row: samples for The Hour of Memory (© 1916 07 12) Sweet Cookie Mine (© 1917 04 19) Paradise Blues (© 1916 10 14) Third row: samples for I Ain’t Got Nobody (© 1914 04 08) Let’s Go Back to Dreamy Lotus Land (© 1917, advertised 1917 07 20) I Love That Loveable Melody (© 1917, piano roll announced 1917 02 24) Fourth row: samples and covers for Moonlight Blues (© 1916, advertised 1916 12 08) My Fox-trot Girl (© 1917, piano roll announced 1917 04 28) |
Performance Medium | voice and piano |
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Local Identifier | 2014_12996_791 |
Collection Title | James Edward Myers Sheet Music Collection, 1836-1986 |
Collection | James Edward Myers World War I Sheet Music Collection |
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