THAT'S IT
Created on 02/04/2002Latest update on 12/10/2024
Artist: Jimmy Monaco
Author: James V. Monaco
Year: 1914
Bandleader and composer (of What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For). Instrumental connected to the barber expression Shave And A Haircut, Two Bits in 1939. The Barber Museum in Canal Winchester, Ohio (near Columbus) has the original sheet music. Two bits was indeed the price for a shave and a haircut in those days, that's about 25 cent, so figure out how much cheaper that was. When the dollar became America's monetary standard, the bit was a Spanish silver coin.
Covers:
- 1915:
American Quartet [opening and finishing On The 5:15; n°2 US]
- 1915:
- 1920s:
Happiness Boys [coda of That's A Lot Of Bunk]
- 1928:
Mickey Mouse [in his very first cartoon Steamboat Willy]
- 1930s:
bluegrass-ending [everybody in bluegrass knows what a shave and a haircut ending means; The Arkansas Traveler has one]
- 1930s:
- 1939:
Dan Shapiro, Lester Lee & Milton Berle [as Shave And A Haircut Shampoo]
- 1942:
Spike Jones [in Clink Clink Another Drink]
- 1950:
Dave Bartholomew [in Country Boy]
- 1952:
Dave Bartholomew [opens My Ding-A-Ling]
- 1955:
Bo Diddley [the famous Bo Diddley beat is just a succession of Shave And A Haircuts; same goes up for Not Fade Away]
- 1959:
North Mississippi fife & drum rhythm [sort of Bo Diddley beat, or is it the other way around? (see: Hambone)]
- 1961:
Jets [in Gee, Officer Krupke from Westside Story]
- 1962:
Dave Brubeck [coda Unsquare Dance]
- 1965:
Rene & His Alligators [coda 12th Street]
- 1965:
Cocktail Trio [coda Het Vlooiencircus]
- 1965:
Rita Corita [idem]
- 1965:
Winifred Atwell [in Flea Market Of Paris]
- 1972:
Carpenters [coda Piano Picker]
- 1988:
Roger Rabbit [in film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the poor fellow can't resist in finishing off a Shave And A Haircut with Two Bits of his own, even if this reveals his hiding place]
Same 7-note riff halfway the Charles Hale song At A Darktown Cakewalk (1899) and in the bridge of H.A. Fischler's Hot Scottish Rag (1911).
