Bluebell (One Night I Thought I'd Enjoy Myself)

DESCRIPTION: "One night I thought I'd enjoy myself, I entered the music hall. The singer was singing 'Blue Bell," you could hear him in Montreal." Four singers in a row sing "Blue Bell" until someone hits him with a dumbell. Other jokes about "Blue Bell"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 2022 (Derek Piotr archive)
KEYWORDS: music humorous derivative horse racing marriage oldmaid
FOUND IN: Britain(England)
RECORDINGS:
Steve Gardham, "Bluebell" (Piotr-Archive #306, recorded 10/11/2022)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Goodbye, My Blue Bell" (partial source of the tune and entire source of the joke)
cf. "The Old Maid and the Burglar" [Laws H23] ("Woman, for the Lord's sake shoot" line)
NOTES [98 words]: A parody of the 1904 song "Blue Bell" by Edward Madden (words) and Theodore F Morse (music), indexed as "Goodbye, My Blue Bell," which begins
Blue Bell, the dawn is waking,
Sweetheart, you must not sigh,
Blue Bell, my heart is breaking,
I've come to say goodbye....
Edward Foote Gardner, Popular Songs of the Twentieth Century: Volume I -- Chart Detail & Encyclopedia 1900-1949, Paragon House, 2000, p. 265, estimates that this was the most popular song in America in 1904, peaking in popularity in May of the year, which would explain why Steve Gardham says everyone was singing it. - RBW
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File: DPio306

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