1923 BARNEY GOOGLE like Rudolf VALENTINO Douglas Fairbanks EDISON 51155
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A series of great PERSONALITY Records from Movies, Vaudeville, Minstrel and Humor on 78 rpm Victrola Records
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Two great 1923 Hit Songs, with the start of the Egyptian craze of Carter's discovery of Tut Anch Amun
BARNEY GOOGLE sung by Jones and Hare with Orch
with some great ad libbed lyrics:
Who's the man our Presidents tell all their troubles to?
No, it isn't Mr. Bryan and it isn't Mr. Hughes;
I'm mighty proud that I'm allowed a chance to introduce:
Barney Google—with the goo-goo-googly eyes,
Barney Google—had a wife three times his size;
She sued Barney for divorce,
Now he’s sleeping with his horse!
Barney Google—with the goo-goo-googly eyes!
Who's the greatest lover that this country ever knew?
Who's the man that Valentino takes his hat off to?
No, it isn't Douglas Fairbanks that the ladies rave about;
When he arrives, who makes the wives chase all their husbands out?
Barney Google—with the goo, goo, googly eyes,
Barney Google—bet his horse would win the prize;
When the horses ran that day,
Spark Plug ran the other way!
Barney Google—with the goo-goo-googly eyes!
Rec Numb 51155-R 51155-L Take A A Title Barney Google - Foxtrot (Billy Rose, Con Conrad / Seyler) Old King Tut (Harry von Tilzer) Artist Billy Jones (T), Ernest Hare (Bar), (O) Billy Jones (T), Ernest Hare (Bar), (O) Recorded 1923.04.13 1923.04.17 Place NYC NYC Comment acoustic acoustic
Desirable Paper Label Edison Diamond Disc VERTICAL 78 rpm record
Condition: EXCELLENT close to PRISTINE faint scuffs,
plays E+ Exceptionally quiet
GREAT VOLUME
A SUPERB COPY
Snuffy Smith and Barney Google
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, originally Barney Google, is a long-running American comic strip created in 1919 by Billy De Beck. The strip inspired the popular 1920s song, "Barney Google (With the Goo-Goo-Googly Eyes)," with lyrics by Billy Rose.
When the strip began, its title character, a little fellow with big eyes, was a sportsman involved in horse racing and boxing. In 1922, the strip took a huge turn in popularity with the addition of a race horse named Spark Plug, a nag who seldom raced and was typically seen almost totally covered by his horse blanket. In 1934, an even greater change took place when Barney and the horse visited the North Carolina mountains and met a moonshiner named Snuffy Smith. The strip increasingly focused on stereotypical humor about the hillbillies of southern Appalachia, with Snuffy as the main character. Locals in the strip are extremely suspicious of any outsiders, referred to as "flatlanders," or, even worse, "revenooers" (federal revenue agents). Snuffy was so popular that his name was added to the strip's title in the late 1930s, and Barney Google himself virtually disappeared after the 1950s.
The strip first appeared in the sports section of the Chicago Herald and Examiner as Take Barney Google, F'rinstance. By October 1919, the strip was syndicated by King Features and was published in newspapers across the country. Fred Lasswell, DeBeck's lifelong assistant, took over Barney Google in 1942. Lasswell drew the strip until his death on March 3, 2001. John Rose, who inked the strip for Lasswell, draws the comic today.
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