helloi ma baby (1899)
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Hello! Ma BabyFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaOriginal sheet-music cover from 1899"Hello! Ma Baby" is a Tin Pan Alley song written in 1899 by the songwriting team of Joseph E. Howard and Ida Emerson, known as "Howard and Emerson".[1] Its subject is a man who has a girlfriend he knows only through the telephone; it was the first well-known song to refer to the device.[2] The song was first recorded by Arthur Collins on an Edison 5470 phonograph cylinder.[3]It was originally a "coon song", with African-American caricatures on the sheet music and "coon" references in the lyrics.[4]Its chorus is far better known than its verse, as the introductory song in the famous Warner Bros. cartoon One Froggy Evening (1955), sung by the character later dubbed Michigan J. Frog and high-stepping in the style of a cakewalk:Hello! ma babyHello! ma honeyHello! ma ragtime galSend me a kiss by wireBaby, ma heart's on fire!If you refuse meHoney, you'll lose meThen you'll be left aloneOh, baby, telephoneAnd tell me I'm your own!TRANSCRIPT
