Re: Wanted: 78 RPM The Little Ford Rambled Right Along
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2023 5:23 pm
There is another one, "Poor Lizzie," (1928) about the passing away of the Model T. It's kind of funny
"There'll be no more service/
For you, old sweetheart
So we'll go to Woolworth's
For each extra part-"
Then another Ford song that's very creepy was "Since Henry Ford Apologized to Me," a Jones & Hare novelty record referencing the content of a controversial, highly prejudiced paper, The Dearborn Independent, which Ford wrote. Not mentioned was The International Jew, a book which Ford wrote that ended up getting a lot of coverage in Germany at the time. A lot of people do not like to be reminded that Henry Ford was not only crazy, he was also crazy and an anti-semite.
You can also find records from the 1920s with the Henry Ford Old Time Dance Orchestra. These are made as reenactments of 19th-century folk music/ballroom music and they are quite nice. The Henry Ford museum has some of the 18th-c. costumes, buckled shoes & all, that Mr. Ford would wear while he entertained at these kinds of parties.
There's another great old song, not specifically about the Ford car but included here because it's a fun old song-- "Get Out and Get Under" (1914) which my girlfriend & I found at "last call" at the October CAMPS swap in Mooresville. It was a Blue Amberol in a box of them & I got it for three dollars. There was also a Harold Lloyd film of the same title in 1920 which uses a little Ford runabout as a prop.
"There'll be no more service/
For you, old sweetheart
So we'll go to Woolworth's
For each extra part-"
Then another Ford song that's very creepy was "Since Henry Ford Apologized to Me," a Jones & Hare novelty record referencing the content of a controversial, highly prejudiced paper, The Dearborn Independent, which Ford wrote. Not mentioned was The International Jew, a book which Ford wrote that ended up getting a lot of coverage in Germany at the time. A lot of people do not like to be reminded that Henry Ford was not only crazy, he was also crazy and an anti-semite.
You can also find records from the 1920s with the Henry Ford Old Time Dance Orchestra. These are made as reenactments of 19th-century folk music/ballroom music and they are quite nice. The Henry Ford museum has some of the 18th-c. costumes, buckled shoes & all, that Mr. Ford would wear while he entertained at these kinds of parties.
There's another great old song, not specifically about the Ford car but included here because it's a fun old song-- "Get Out and Get Under" (1914) which my girlfriend & I found at "last call" at the October CAMPS swap in Mooresville. It was a Blue Amberol in a box of them & I got it for three dollars. There was also a Harold Lloyd film of the same title in 1920 which uses a little Ford runabout as a prop.
