Word: mud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They don't need no band, They keep time by clapping their hand, Just as happy as a cow chewing on a cud, When the darkies beat their feet On the Mississippi Mud...
...very largely to his personal friends. Al Rinker had fattened up and looked like the radio executive he is. But when this trio, once known as the Rhythm Boys, held a reunion with Paul Whiteman's band in NBC's Hollywood studio last week, they sang Mississippi Mud, the song which made them famous in 1927, just as though the years and all the changes had made no real difference...
There were some youngish soldiers & sailors who were there to hear Dinah Shore, on the same program, and who thought the Rhythm Boys leaned slightly toward the corn. But to many who had grown up with the syncopated ditty, Mississippi Mud seemed a solid, perdurable part of U.S. musical history...
...also such a cocky little entertainer that the partners nicknamed him "Mr. Show Business." He worked up a fast routine with himself and Rinker at baby pianos, Crosby at his baby cymbal, rapid patter, breaks, and percussive slamming of the piano top by Barris himself. He wrote Mississippi Mud. The Rhythm Boys' record of it, with Crosby's doleful passage about the melting away of his sugar who was left standing in the rain, sold over 300,000 within three months...
...grim and war is horrible. It has always been the military man himself who has been the first to point this out, wisely leaving it to well-manicured civilians to sing sweetly of its lice and mud and torture and death. . . . This present tragedy of history is markedly different from its predecessors. In this war the artist is on the spot. Whatever his previous preoccupation with three plums in a silver dish or three girls in a grassy glade, the artist has now been wrenched out of it by the necessity of recording . . . man's reaction to the greatest...