Anyone know this song?

[jboger]

"I got my captain working for me now," sung by Al Jolson. I have it on RCA Victor. Got to be a post WWI song. Ah, cruel irony--for the captain! Have to say, though, I really don't like the sentiment expressed in the song, perhaps understandable, but still don't like it.

[Phonofreak]

That was a very popular song that came out around 1919, after WWI. I have it on an Edison BA and a blue and gold Columbia label. Al Jolson recorded it on the Columbia. I believe Billy Murray recorded this song for Edison. I like that record. I think it's funny. The ultimate revenge is to have your superior working for you.
Harvey Kravitz

[jboger]

Yes, Billy Murray (sp?) is on the other side. I have several songs by him. How about, "Wait till you get them up in the air, boys"? I like his voice. All these songs and about 200 more records came out of that auction where I bought them a few months ago. Still cleaning and sorting them out. Probably about 10% are broken, and I broke one. Yep, slipped out of my hands and shattered on the floor. These things are fragile.

Some of them are later 78s. I have Nelson Eddy singing "Danny Boy." He had a good rich bass, didn't he? Count Basie. Peggy Lee. Perry Como. Tex Ritter (father of that actor who died a few years ago, died young. He was in a silly show called "Three's Company.") And a whole host of others.

[Wolseley]

"I got my captain working for me now," sung by Al Jolson.

That song was included on an LP of early Jolson recordings that would have been released in the late 1970s. I had a copy of the LP but, when I reduced the size of my collection about 15 years or more ago, it was one of the ones I got rid of. The only other song I can recall being on the LP was "Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts for Soldiers".

[De Soto Frank]

I believe Bing Crosby did a re-make of it in the 1946 Paramount picture "Blue Skies", with Fred Astaire.

Song dates to 1920, Irving Berlin.

[CarlosV]

Eddie Cantor also recorded it on Pathé.