The Yankee Doodle Boy

"The Yankee Doodle Boy" is a patriotic song from the Broadway musical Little Johnny Jones written by George M. Cohan. The play opened at the Liberty Theater on November 7, 1904.

Related Topics:
Broadway - Little Johnny Jones - George M. Cohan - Liberty Theater - November 7 - 1904

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The play concerns the trials and tribulations of a fictional American jockey, Johnny Jones, who rides a horse named Yankee Doodle in the English Derby. Cohan incorporates snippets of several popular traditional American songs into his lyrics of this song, as he often did with his songs.

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An early hit version of the song was recorded by Cohan's contemporary and fellow Irish-American Billy Murray, who sang it this way...

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