From the WW1 set at the 2007 West Coast Ragtime Festival, singer Ann Gibson enters with her Doughboys as pianist Frederick Hodges plays "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" (1912) before breaking into a song from 1915, "America, I Love You," which soon would be used as a rallying song as America entered the war.
Hodges and Gibson perform together regularly in the San Francisco Bay area, and Hodges solo also. Please visit http://www.frederickhodges.com for their performance schedules and information on recordings that are available.
As the question had arisen recently, yes, this is posted by permission -- by request, even.
goodsong - thaks for lettin me know about it! - never heard it before... i knew long ways to tipperary though!
drummergirll 3 years ago
This song is one of the highpoints in the 1940 Tin Pan Alley film with Alice Faye, John Payne and Jack Oakie. Very livey beat amd I think it should be played over and over!
flxible52 3 years ago
Aww... a school play but with grown ups! America is cute! ...if a little backward.
diddydiddycool 3 years ago
I love it! 5 Stars !
Tom Warner
tdub1941 4 years ago
Hurrah!
Kitschee 4 years ago
My aunt (long gone now) worked for the Pullman Co. durring WW1 - was one of the few women in during that war do do a "man's" job. She said she wore coverall quite daring at the time.
HarborGuy 4 years ago