"Take Your Girlie to the Movies" Promotes Film & Romance

[missdupont]

"Take Your Girlie to the Movies" satirizes romantic situations at the movies, at a time when there was a housing shortage and more women were independent after World War I.
http://ladailymirror.com/2016/03/07/mar ... d-romance/" target="_blank

[Christopher Jacobs]

Great article! That is such a fun song with an addictively catchy tune, and still just as topical that I'm surprised it hasn't been revived more often, updated with whatever contemporary stars are popular. Besides Tennessee Ernie Ford, Dean Martin did it in the 1950s with some slightly updated lyrics. A few other variations and extra verses are also around. It's also pretty amazing how much "precode" suggestiveness it was able to get away with on a 1919 commercial recording, giving virtually explicit lessons to the listeners and exhorting them to carry them out... "It's lots of fun! Here's how it's done! So come on and give it a try!" Besides promoting moviegoing, it would make an ideal promotional jingle for the Gurley Foods distributors of nuts and candies if they ever decided to get their products into theatres instead of just grocery stores.

I used the song as a basis for a modest production number in a backstage movie musical I made about a decade ago, called MUSIC TO MY EARS (2006). A brief snippet of the instrumental background is included in the trailer on IMDB, but here's a link to a recording of one of the early audio mixes of various takes (a slightly different version with different takes made it into the movie for the actors to perform to).
http://www.und.edu/instruct/cjacobs/Web ... s-mix1.mp3

There's downloadable sheet music at
http://digitalcollections.baylor.edu/cd ... c/id/54687

[moviepas]

I note that Billie Burke is mentioned in the lyrics.

[missdupont]

She's also mentioned in my post.