Last Night on the Back Porch (I Loved Her Best of All)

Chuck Lavazzi with Neal Richardson, pianist and music director. This is from Chuck's cabaret show "Just a Song at Twilight: the Golden Age of Vaudeville", which premiered at the Kranzberg Center in St. Louis March 26 and 27, 2010, with an encore on July 24, 2010. The song was written for Al Jolson's hit "Bombo" and, in fact, the first verse includes his catch phrase "you ain't heard nothin' yet". Many others have performed it since, including Bing Crosby and our own St. Louis Ragtimers. The score includes a whopping total of eight (!) verses. Only Jolson could get away with that many, so I don't even try. Given my ethnic background, however, I couldn't pass up the cheesy Italian dialect patter - or the more suggestive lyrics. There might have been even more lyrics that were never recorded. The sheet music has the following note at the bottom of the page of extra verses: "For community sings or house parties continue indefinitely by substituting KISS-HUG-SQUEEZE etc for LOVE using words of first chorus: - viz I kiss her in the morning And I kiss her at night".

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• Chuck Lavazzi
• Al Jolson
• vaudeville
• Neal Richardson
• Last Night on the Back Porch