Word: dardanella
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heart was grown in the same fertile Tin Pan Alley patch as Dardanella, Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong, Blue Is the Night, Ireland Must Be Heaven, and Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine. But Peg O' My Heart grew more slowly than Fred Fisher's other hits, did not reach full bloom until the doughboys came home whistling...
Born in Germany of U.S. parents, Composer Fisher spoke English with an accent that rhymed "love" with "enough," was the Irving Berlin of his day. His Dardanella (he wrote the lyrics) sold an alltime high of six million records and almost two million copies of sheet music. He organized the Fred Fisher Music Co., grossed nearly $1,000,000 in his first year. Later, as a manager of another Tin Pan Alley firm (Harms), Fred Fisher had such hopefuls as George Gershwin and Jerome Kern on his staff...
...title for Peg O' My Heart from the play (1912) starring Laurette Taylor, which had been a hit before Fisher borrowed its well-plugged name for his song. Fisher once sued Jerome Kern, accusing him of stealing the theme of his Kalula from the rumbling bass part of Dardanella. The jury awarded...
...Johnny's collaborator in writing Dardanella...
...years I searched for Mrs. Black to help place the renewal rights to the copyright of Dardanella safely in her hands, and after most diligent searching through and with the help of Ohio newspapers, I located her working in a department store in Dayton. . . . I have already notified Mrs. Black that she should act at once to protect her interest...