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Sheet music cover with picture of Charlotte Greenwood (1919)
"Oh By Jingo! " (also "Oh By Jingo! Oh By Gee You're The Only Girl For Me "), is a 1919 novelty song by Albert Von Tilzer with lyrics by Lew Brown .
The song was featured in the Broadway show "Linger Longer Letty ", and became one of the biggest Tin Pan Alley hits of the post-World War I era.
While the song lyrics say it is set in "the land of San Domingo ", no geographic nor anthropological accuracy is found nor intended in the silly lyrics, set in a generic "exotic" and "primitive" location. The song was much imitated over the next decade.
The song appeared several times in film and television: it was performed by Betty Hutton in the film Incendiary Blonde (1945); by Debbie Reynolds and Bobby Van as a specialty number in the Esther Williams MGM vehicle, Skirts Ahoy! ; sung in the I Love Lucy TV show (Season 4, ep. 2, "Mertz and Kurtz", October 11, 1954); and sung by Hugh Laurie in P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster (Season 4, ep. 5).
References
Who Wrote that Song? Dick Jacobs & Harriet Jacobs, published by Writer's Digest Books, 1993
Songs
"Ain't It Funny What a Difference Just a Few Hours Make "
"Alexander's Ragtime Band "
"Always Leave Them Laughing When You Say Goodbye "
"Any Little Girl, That's a Nice Little Girl, Is the Right Little Girl for Me "
"At the Moving Picture Ball "
"Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee "
"Because I'm Married Now "
"Blue Feather "
"Bon Bon Buddy "
"Charley, My Boy "
"Cheyenne "
"Clap Hands! Here Comes Charley! "
"College Life "
"Come Josephine in My Flying Machine "
"Cordelia Malone "
"Cuddle up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine "
"Daddy, Come Home "
"Dear Sing Sing "
"Dixie "
"Don't Bring Lulu "
"Everybody Works but Father "
"Forty-five Minutes from Broadway "
"Gasoline Gus "
"Give My Regards to Broadway "
"Harrigan "
"He'd Have to Get Under – Get Out and Get Under (to Fix Up His Automobile) "
"He Goes to Church on Sunday "
"He May Be Old, But He's Got Young Ideas "
"Hello, Hawaii, How Are You? "
"I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark "
"In My Merry Oldsmobile "
"In the Good Old Summer Time "
"In the Land of the Buffalo "
"In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree "
"It's a Long Way to Tipperary "
"It's the Same Old Shillelagh "
"It Takes the Irish to Beat the Dutch "
"I've Been Floating Down the Old Green River "
"I've Got My Captain Working for Me Now "
"I've Got Rings On My Fingers "
"I Want to Go Back to Michigan "
"I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now "
"K-K-K-Katy "
"Moonlight Bay "
"Oh! By Jingo "
"Oh, You Beautiful Doll "
"On the 5:15 "
"On the Old Fall River Line "
"Over There "
"Play a Simple Melody
"Pretty Baby "
"Pride of the Prairie "
"School Days "
"Shine On, Harvest Moon "
"Some Sunday Morning "
"Tipperary "
"Under the Anheuser Bush "
"The Worst Is Yet to Come "
"The Yankee Doodle Boy "
"You'd Be Surprised "
"You're a Grand Old Flag "