Ada Jones & Walter Van Brunt - Googy-oo (1909)
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Ada Jones & Walter Van Brunt sing "Googy-oo" on Indestructible Record 1161, issued in 1909.
The song is by Edward E. Rice and was featured in the show titled The Candy Shop.
You remember how you wooed me
And with loving words pursued me
No, I really can't exactly say I do
And the happy hours I squandered
As beside the brook we wandered
I don't believe I wandered there with you
The admission may be shady
'Twas perhaps another lady
How you gazed so fondly
Down into my eyes
I think she must be silly
No, I'm not your little Willy
How you whispered then
The secret that I cried
Birds are calling
Night was falling
The moon behind the clouds
Played peek-a-boo
In the gloaming
As we were roaming
You called me then
Your little googy-oogy-oo
Googy-oogy-oogy-oo
Googy-oogy-oogy-oo
Did I ever use a name
Such a name as this to you?
Googy-oogy-oogy-oo
Googy-oogy-oogy-oo
When in love you never know
Just what you ought to do
As a tiger once you caught me
Fiercely pull my love, you false me
Now, I really don't remember fighting you
Through the jungle, then we rambled
You beside me, gently ambled
I don't believe I ambled there with you
As we strolled along the Niger
'Twas perhaps some other tiger
There was music in the way
We used to roam
Now I think I do recall it
When I couldn't squeak I squalid (?)
How I long to hear you roaring as of yore
Birds are calling
Nights were falling
The moon behind the clouds
Played peek-a-boo
In the gloaming
As we were roaming
You called me then
Your little googy-oogy-oo
Googy-oogy-oogy-oo
Googy-oogy-oogy-oo
Did I ever use a name
Such a name as this to you?
Googy-oogy-oogy-oo
Googy-oogy-oogy-oo
When in love you never know
Just what you ought to do
Ada Jones lived from June 1, 1873, to May 2, 1922. She was the leading female recording artist in the acoustic recording era, especially popular from 1905 to 1912 or so. Her singing range was limited, but she was remarkably versatile, successful with vaudeville sketches, sentimental ballads, hits from Broadway shows, British music hall material, "coon" and ragtime songs, and Irish comic songs.
She was known for an ability to mimic dialects.
Victor catalogs listed roles at which she excelled: "Whether Miss Jones' impersonation be that of a darky wench, a little German maiden, a 'fresh' saleslady, a cowboy girl, a country damsel, Mrs. Flanagan or an Irish colleen, a Bowery tough girl, a newsboy or a grandmother, it is invariably a perfect one of its kind."
Columbia catalogs as late as 1921 stated: "Miss Jones is without question the cleverest singer of soubrette songs, popular child ballads and popular ragtime hits adaptable for the soprano voice now recording for any Company. She is also one of the most popular singers in the record field and her records have been heard in all quarters of the globe. Her duet records with Mr. [Walter] Van Brunt, unique and entertaining as they are, have also come in for unlimited popular approval."
The song is by Edward E. Rice and was featured in the show titled The Candy Shop.
You remember how you wooed me
And with loving words pursued me
No, I really can't exactly say I do
And the happy hours I squandered
As beside the brook we wandered
I don't believe I wandered there with you
The admission may be shady
'Twas perhaps another lady
How you gazed so fondly
Down into my eyes
I think she must be silly
No, I'm not your little Willy
How you whispered then
The secret that I cried
Birds are calling
Night was falling
The moon behind the clouds
Played peek-a-boo
In the gloaming
As we were roaming
You called me then
Your little googy-oogy-oo
Googy-oogy-oogy-oo
Googy-oogy-oogy-oo
Did I ever use a name
Such a name as this to you?
Googy-oogy-oogy-oo
Googy-oogy-oogy-oo
When in love you never know
Just what you ought to do
As a tiger once you caught me
Fiercely pull my love, you false me
Now, I really don't remember fighting you
Through the jungle, then we rambled
You beside me, gently ambled
I don't believe I ambled there with you
As we strolled along the Niger
'Twas perhaps some other tiger
There was music in the way
We used to roam
Now I think I do recall it
When I couldn't squeak I squalid (?)
How I long to hear you roaring as of yore
Birds are calling
Nights were falling
The moon behind the clouds
Played peek-a-boo
In the gloaming
As we were roaming
You called me then
Your little googy-oogy-oo
Googy-oogy-oogy-oo
Googy-oogy-oogy-oo
Did I ever use a name
Such a name as this to you?
Googy-oogy-oogy-oo
Googy-oogy-oogy-oo
When in love you never know
Just what you ought to do
Ada Jones lived from June 1, 1873, to May 2, 1922. She was the leading female recording artist in the acoustic recording era, especially popular from 1905 to 1912 or so. Her singing range was limited, but she was remarkably versatile, successful with vaudeville sketches, sentimental ballads, hits from Broadway shows, British music hall material, "coon" and ragtime songs, and Irish comic songs.
She was known for an ability to mimic dialects.
Victor catalogs listed roles at which she excelled: "Whether Miss Jones' impersonation be that of a darky wench, a little German maiden, a 'fresh' saleslady, a cowboy girl, a country damsel, Mrs. Flanagan or an Irish colleen, a Bowery tough girl, a newsboy or a grandmother, it is invariably a perfect one of its kind."
Columbia catalogs as late as 1921 stated: "Miss Jones is without question the cleverest singer of soubrette songs, popular child ballads and popular ragtime hits adaptable for the soprano voice now recording for any Company. She is also one of the most popular singers in the record field and her records have been heard in all quarters of the globe. Her duet records with Mr. [Walter] Van Brunt, unique and entertaining as they are, have also come in for unlimited popular approval."