to all or reader!
To spice up the season, here's a novelty number entitled 'GIT UP OFF'N THAT FLOOR HANNAH!' ('A Bitter New Year's Eve'), written by Red Ingle, Joe ‘Country’ Washburne, and Foster Carling.
It is a pastiche of an American folk ballad, ‘Fair Charlotte’ (or ‘Young Charlotte’), which is based on a poem by one Seba Smith, first published in 1843 under the title ‘A Corpse Going To A Ball’, which has its origins in an incident recounted in an 1840 ‘New York Observer’ article.
Ernest Jansen "Red" Ingle (1906 - 1965) was an American violinist, saxophonist, singer, songwriter, arranger, cartoonist and caricaturist.
In his late teens, he was touring with jazz legends Bix Beiderbecke and Frankie Trumbauer.
After he failed an eye test for the Air Force, he joined 'Spike Jones & His City Slickers', where his talent for comedy came to the fore. An example appears in Paramount's 1945 film 'Bring on the Girls' (youtu.be/y02l0ZZht1U), where he spoofs the vaudeville song, 'Chloe'.
In November 1946, following a salary dispute, Ingle branched out on his own, and the next year, he made 'Tim Tayshun', a spoof recording of the then-popular Perry Como hit, 'Temptation', with Jo Stafford (using the name 'Cinderella G. Stump'). The single went on to sell three million copies, and a new band... 'Red Ingle and the Natural Seven'... came into being. Their hits included 'Moe Zart's Turkey Trot' (based on Mozart's 'Rondo Alla Turca'), and the classic, 'Cigareetes, Whuskey, and Wild, Wild Women'.
The Mudcat Café (http://mudcat.org) has more information on 'Get Up Off'n That Floor Hannah' It is a very useful site for information about folk songs, comic songs and parodies.
This version is by a Strine band.
