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Artist:The Knickerbockers
Label:  Columbia
Country:USA
Catalogue:1596-D
Date:Dec 1928
Format:10"
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Community: 1 Owns
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TrackArtistTitleComposerRating
AThe KnickerbockersHappy Days And Lonely Nights (Dias Felices Y Noches Solitarias)Fisher, Rose9.0  Rate
BThe KnickerbockersDoin' The Racoon (Haciendo El Coati)Coots, Klages10.0  Rate


Notes

A mx: W147043; B mx: W147044.
Both recorded New York, NY, October 8, 1928.(DAHR)

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xiphophilos
27th Jul 2017
 A side:


The vocal refrain is by band leader Ben Selvin himself.
 
 
xiphophilos
27th Jul 2017
 B side (with interesting background on the "racoon coat" fashionable among college students in the late 1920s):


College men, knowledge men,
Do a dance called raccoon;
It's the craze, nowadays,
And it will get you soon.
Buy a coat and try it,
I'll bet you'll be a riot,
It's a wow, learn to do it right now!

High brow, low brow, intermediate,
Make believe they're all collegiate, soon,
To do the raccoon!

Raccoon coats don't care who's wearing 'em,
Hallroom boys will all be sharing 'em soon,
To do the raccoon!

Every day its popularity grows,
It's the most important item in clothes.

Ten bucks down, and though it scratches you,
Wear it 'til the sheriff catches you, soon,
To do the raccoon!

Oh, they wear 'em down at Princeton,
And they share 'em up at Yale,
They eat in them at Harvard,
But they sleep in them in jail!

They store 'em at Ohio,
They're hawked at Notre Dame,
They carry 'em at California,
But they wear out just the same!

At Penn, they're made of rabbit,
At Vassar, sex appeal,
At Nebraska, made of airedale,
In Chicago lined with steel!

From every college campus comes the cheer: oy-yoy!
The season for the raccoon coat is here, my boy!

Rough guys, tough guys, men of dignity,
Join the raccoon coat fraternity, soon,
To do the raccoon.

Rich men, poor men, all have pride in them,
No one knows who walks inside of them, soon,
To do the raccoon.

Every day you'll have your downs and your ups, high-ho,
Every day those raccoon coats will have pups, I know!

Get a girl and start to hurry her
Right downtown to some big furrier, soon,
You'll do the raccoon!

Rac, rac, rac, rac, rac-rac-rac raccoon!
 
 
slholzer
27th Jul 2017
 Based on information submitted with surrounding numbers, I have filled in the year of release.

Rust and Sutton agree that The Knickerbockers is a pseudonym for Ben Selvin's Orchestra.
 

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