YALE JOCK ABBOTT LOWELL AND THE YALE BLUES
YALE JOCK ABBOTT LOWELL AND THE YALE BLUES is an 8x6 signed, limited edition print. The found cabinet card of the unknown Yale jock (I have named Abbott Lowell after the 1920s Harvard President for Ivy equal time.) The card was copied, enlarged, colored and mounted on an adaptation of a popular 1927 sheet music song, The Yale Blues. Most versions have a ukulele arrangement. It was, was after all, the Jazz Age with its ukes, cat’s pajamas, bees knees, giggle water and, at Yale, Boola Boola coming out the ying yang.
The Yale Blues was a fox trot written by Collie Knox and Vivian Ellis.
It was first danced at London’s Park Lane Hotel on July 26, 1927. Pre-Jet Age, London was days away from New Haven, yet the dance found its way over here. It was popular at the Yale annual winter dances called Junior Promenades. (Now dead because of ennui.)
So, put on your wing tip shoes and grab your pre-peta raccoon coat. Go cut a rug with your favorite flapper sweetie. Sing and dance the Yale Blues. Boola Boola, sis boom bah and all that.
More jocks and adapted song sheets on peterjketchum.com web site.
The Yale Blues was a fox trot written by Collie Knox and Vivian Ellis.
It was first danced at London’s Park Lane Hotel on July 26, 1927. Pre-Jet Age, London was days away from New Haven, yet the dance found its way over here. It was popular at the Yale annual winter dances called Junior Promenades. (Now dead because of ennui.)
So, put on your wing tip shoes and grab your pre-peta raccoon coat. Go cut a rug with your favorite flapper sweetie. Sing and dance the Yale Blues. Boola Boola, sis boom bah and all that.
More jocks and adapted song sheets on peterjketchum.com web site.