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Does anybody have a recording / know if one exists of the original 1913 version of "The Monkey Doodle-Doo", by Irving Berlin ?

According to the sheet-music, it was introduced in a show called "All Aboard", a reveiw produced-by and featuring Lew Fields, at his 44th St. Roof-top Garden, and it is NOT the same song that Berlin produced for "The Cocoanuts" in 1925 ( of which there are plenty of recordings...)

I wasn't aware of this earlier title, until now. The lyrics I've found indicate that it must have been a very different tune in 1913 (along the lines of the other "Monkey Songs" of the time (Aba Daba Honeymoon, Down In Monkey Town, etc) vs 1925 - besides the fact that the Marx Bros version is very mid-20s & couldn't have been written in 1913. I wonder if it "bombed" in 1913, so wasn't recorded.