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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyes of Warden Herbert ("Cap") Smith and beefy Deputy Tom Meikrantz was a Chinese prisoner's song, written and sung in quavery, North China dialect by Canton-born William Yun. (Yun was jailed six weeks ago for working the badger game on a wealthy countryman named Lee Foo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Carols at Cherry Hill | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Take it easy" warned You Foo Too. "She might be somebody's Pfister...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey occ., | Title: ONLY DERN ZILLY CHILD WOOD DENY CANTANS'LL BURNAM UP | 11/25/1939 | See Source »

CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 17 (WUPS)--"Urban thinking it over," said You Foo Too, "and I say the outlook is Piretti Sauer for the Wildcats...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey, | Title: SAGE BLESSES ELEVEN, SAYS "HARLOWED BY THY NAME" | 11/18/1939 | See Source »

CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 3 (WUPS)--"You can always Stella Harvard man, but you can't Curtiss feelings," said the Sage's friend, You Foo Too, "I've been Mullin it over and I say the soldiers will...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey occ, | Title: "ARMY MAY GILLIS, BUT WE'RE YEAGER FOR FRAY"--HUEY | 11/11/1939 | See Source »

...Broadway automaton shop for which we paid 25?. Nothing further was done about the song until last November when the Andrews Sisters, whom I manage . . . were in Philadelphia playing a theatre engagement. . . . The Andrews, Kent, Brandow, Vic Shoen (their arranger) and myself fooled around with the song. In "foo to Nagasaki," Pattie rolled the words to sound like "foo-aya-racka-sacki." Arranger Vic Shoen changed the tempo and melody of the song much differently. Pattie suggested "don't get icky with the 1-2-3" for the verse. Kent created "life is just so fine on the solid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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