Aint it a PITY! i made it just after FIDDY! but I AM here! I am glad! and thank you Ransom for all the work you do!
LEX
btw : great trivia question i ran across “who was first to record “MAMMY” most would say AL JOLSON but he recorded it in 1922 an it was huge hit. The first was WILLIAM FRAWLEY who us oldsters remember as FRED MERTZ on the I LOVE LUCY SHOW . Frawley recorded it in 1918. Trying to imagine fred as a singer with his portly bod and gravellike voice! oh well its ONLY MUSIC!
Some of us recall his time on “My Three Sons”
Didn’t see “Mammy” in a quick search, but I found Frawley singing “Carolina”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQAUUFdAbSs