Those Charlie Chaplin Feet - Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan (1915)
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Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan sing "Those Charlie Chaplin Feet"
Columbia A1780
1915
Words are by Edgar Leslie.
Music is by Archie Gottler.
This same Archie Gottler later directed the Three Stooges' first Columbia short, "Woman Haters" (1934), which was the last of the six "Musical Novelty" shorts he collaborated on.
There's a funny man I know
who gets all the people's dough.
He works in a movie show, Mister Charlie Chaplin;
Dancing in the cabarets is a thing of bygone days.
Here's the latest and the greatest craze:
Those Charlie Chaplin feet
Those funny Chaplin feet!
When he comes down the street
He makes a cop flop,
They chase him 'round the town--
An auto knocks him down,
Poor Charlie,
Twenty times a day they spill him,
But they never kill him.
Like a bug he gives a the girls a hug,
And when he stubs his toes and bangs his nose,
You'll tumble from your seat.
One fat lady that I saw
Got a dislocated jaw,
Laughing at those Charlie Chaplin feet.
Hubby comes home ev'ry night
With a great big appetite,
But he never gets a bite,
Wifey's at the movies;
Soon the wives will start to sob...
Just to join that Chaplin mob,
Ev'ry man is throwing up his job.
The team of Collins and Harlan was the most successful duo of the acoustic era.
Collins and Harlan performed comic songs in various dialects, cut rube skits, and covered songs satirizing trends of the day, including the new "jass" music introduced in Chicago clubs in late 1916 (the duo made the first record ever to refer to "jass"--the word "jazz" would not come into use until months later in 1917).
Some songs were sentimental (which suited Harlan's tenor voice well), not comic (Collins recorded comic songs on a regular basis as a solo artist).
Before teaming with tenor Byron G. Harlan, baritone Arthur Collins had a partner in tenor Joe Natus for a year. Collins and Natus made 19 Edison cylinders in 1901-1902 and several Victor recordings. Around this time Collins sang in an Edison ensemble called the Big Four Quartet, which recorded five titles issued in 1901. Harlan was one of the quartet's tenors; Natus was the other; A. D. Madeira was bass.
Collins and Harlan probably harmonized for the first time as members of this Edison quartet. By 1903 Natus no longer worked for Edison. The June 1903 Edison Phonograph Monthly announces that "I Must Have a Been a Dreamin'" (Standard 7850), sung by Arthur Collins and Joe Natus, would be "hereafter...sung by Collins and Harlan." Collins and Harlan made new takes of various titles originally cut for Edison by Collins and Natus.
The first time Arthur Collins was paired with Byron G. Harlan for a Victor session was on October 31, 1902 (Harlan's first Victor session).
Columbia A1780
1915
Words are by Edgar Leslie.
Music is by Archie Gottler.
This same Archie Gottler later directed the Three Stooges' first Columbia short, "Woman Haters" (1934), which was the last of the six "Musical Novelty" shorts he collaborated on.
There's a funny man I know
who gets all the people's dough.
He works in a movie show, Mister Charlie Chaplin;
Dancing in the cabarets is a thing of bygone days.
Here's the latest and the greatest craze:
Those Charlie Chaplin feet
Those funny Chaplin feet!
When he comes down the street
He makes a cop flop,
They chase him 'round the town--
An auto knocks him down,
Poor Charlie,
Twenty times a day they spill him,
But they never kill him.
Like a bug he gives a the girls a hug,
And when he stubs his toes and bangs his nose,
You'll tumble from your seat.
One fat lady that I saw
Got a dislocated jaw,
Laughing at those Charlie Chaplin feet.
Hubby comes home ev'ry night
With a great big appetite,
But he never gets a bite,
Wifey's at the movies;
Soon the wives will start to sob...
Just to join that Chaplin mob,
Ev'ry man is throwing up his job.
The team of Collins and Harlan was the most successful duo of the acoustic era.
Collins and Harlan performed comic songs in various dialects, cut rube skits, and covered songs satirizing trends of the day, including the new "jass" music introduced in Chicago clubs in late 1916 (the duo made the first record ever to refer to "jass"--the word "jazz" would not come into use until months later in 1917).
Some songs were sentimental (which suited Harlan's tenor voice well), not comic (Collins recorded comic songs on a regular basis as a solo artist).
Before teaming with tenor Byron G. Harlan, baritone Arthur Collins had a partner in tenor Joe Natus for a year. Collins and Natus made 19 Edison cylinders in 1901-1902 and several Victor recordings. Around this time Collins sang in an Edison ensemble called the Big Four Quartet, which recorded five titles issued in 1901. Harlan was one of the quartet's tenors; Natus was the other; A. D. Madeira was bass.
Collins and Harlan probably harmonized for the first time as members of this Edison quartet. By 1903 Natus no longer worked for Edison. The June 1903 Edison Phonograph Monthly announces that "I Must Have a Been a Dreamin'" (Standard 7850), sung by Arthur Collins and Joe Natus, would be "hereafter...sung by Collins and Harlan." Collins and Harlan made new takes of various titles originally cut for Edison by Collins and Natus.
The first time Arthur Collins was paired with Byron G. Harlan for a Victor session was on October 31, 1902 (Harlan's first Victor session).