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Sep 2007
30m 12s

Novelty songs

BRICE FUQUA
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Novelty songs from the teens and 20s.  Songs include:  Yes. We Have No Bananas, I Faw Down and Go Boom and I  Want to Yodel.

Performers include: Ada Jones, Eddie Cantor, Josephine Baker, Billy Jones and Helen Kane.

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