Hitchy-Koo

Hitchy-Koo is a 1912 American popular song[1] and a series of musical revues, inspired by the song, staged on Broadway each year from 1917 through 1920[2] and on tour in 1922.[3]

Described by Variety magazine as a "hit song of 1912", the song was composed by Lewis F. Muir and Maurice Abrahams with lyrics by L. Wolfe Gilbert.[1][4] Historian Eve Golden stated that the song is "a popular standard from the second-wave of ragtime tunes".[5] Ian Whitcomb wrote that it was one of the first American popular songs to influence musical taste and culture in the United Kingdom with the "invasion of American popular music" in 1912.[6]

  1. ^ a b Sime (October 4, 1912). World of Pleasure. Vol. 28. p. 22. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
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  4. ^ "Songs Publishers Are Boosting". Billboard. Vol. 24, no. 43. October 5, 1912. p. 16.
  5. ^ Golden, chapter: "Everybody's Doing It"
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