Word: fishered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After 34 years, during which Peg had been done wrong by innumerable tenors, she was once again deep in the U.S. heart and high on the hit parade. Last week, for the second week, the late Fred Fisher's 1913 sentimental tune was the nation's jukebox favorite. Its revival had started with the Harmonicats, a Midwest mouth-organ trio, who recorded it, and a Chicago disc jockey named Eddie Hubbard, who plugged their recording into popularity...
...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...
...Fisher Opened...
Back in 1907 Emil Fisher, German chemist, painstakingly made an amino chain of 18 units, but chains of 10,000 units and up are already coming out in Woodward's laboratory. The new molecules may even outdo nature itself, which suggests that an entirely new field of plastics may be opened...