
Artist: Harry Short
Author: Edgar Allan Woolf/Cassius Freeborn
Year: 1906
In Broadway revue Mam-zelle Champagne, notorious for the murder committed during the opening night at the Madison Square Roof Garden, while this song was performed on stage. Same murder takes central place in E.L. Doctorow's historical novel Ragtime (1975), filmed (by Milos Forman) in '81.
Covers:
Donald O'Connor [in film Ragtime, Randy Newman wrote all the music, apart from this song from the original revue (see note)]
Simpsons [Homer Simpson with Gulliver Dark in episode Homer's Night Out from the first season of the series]
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