Hello! Ma Baby
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"Hello! Ma Baby" is a Tin Pan Alley song written in 1899 by the team of Joseph E. Howard and Ida Emerson ("Howard and Emerson"). Its subject is a man who has a girlfriend he knows only through the telephone. The song was first recorded by Arthur Collins on Edison 5470.[1]
Although it is portrayed as a "coon song", with African-American caricatures on the sheet music, the song is easily adaptable to any singer.
Its chorus is far better known than its verse, as the introductory song in the famous Warner Bros. cartoon One Froggy Evening (1955), sung by the character later dubbed Michigan J. Frog and high-stepping in the style of Bert Williams:
- Hello! ma baby
- Hello! ma honey
- Hello! ma ragtime gal
- Send me a kiss by wire
- Baby, ma heart's on fire!
- If you refuse me
- Honey, you'll lose me
- Then you'll be left alone
- Oh, baby, telephone
- And tell me I'm your own!
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[edit] In popular culture
In Charles Ives's composition Central Park in the Dark, "In The Good Old Summer Time", it is quoted frequently.
Paul Kinsey, a character on AMC's Mad Men, sang this song in the season 3 episode "My Old Kentucky Home". The song is sung by two characters in the 2007 episode "Bless Me Father, For I Have Sinned" of Saving Grace. It was also sung by Michigan J. Frog in Looney Tunes several times, including in Looney Tunes: Back in Action.
It was sung in the movie Spaceballs by an alien that emerges from a man's chest in the diner.
In the South Park episode "Cancelled" (2003), the likeness of Saddam Hussein (briefly assumed by an alien) sings the song while dancing. In an episode of American Dad, Steve sings it while dancing a dead frog. In an episode of The Cleveland Show, Rallo Tubbs posing as the class turtle through a baby monitor convinces Cleveland, Jr. to sing the song forwards then backwards. In Ninjago season 2 episode 7 Zane sings part of it on his humor switch.
In the Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu episode "Tick Tock" (2012), the ninja Zane sings the song, while dancing after flipping his "funny switch" on.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ "Collected Works of Arthur Collins part 1 : Arthur Collins : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive". Archive.org. 2001-03-10. http://www.archive.org/details/ArthurCollins_part1. Retrieved 2012-02-21.
- ^ "Tick Tock - The Ninjago Wiki". Retrieved 2012-03-12.
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