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"Dear Old Daddy Long Legs"
By Robbie Rhodes

John A. Tuttle forwarded your message of  08:07  6/7/97:

> Looking for title - Grandaddy Longlegs.  Trying to find this for my
> mother in-law.  She can't remember who wrote the song but knows that
> QRS put it on piano roll.

The song is possibly "Dear Old Daddy-Long-Legs", by Neville Fleeson &
Albert von Tilzer, (c) 1919 Broadway Music Co.,  and proclaiming
prominently on the cover, "dedicated to Mary Pickford."  This data is
from a photocopy of the sheet music.  The style of the sheet music
arrangement is a two-step or fox-trot.

The first line of the chorus is "Dear old Daddy Long Legs, I'm in love
with you," and the remainder of the song is a well-crafted promotion for
Miss Pickford's movies, in the style of a 'fan letter'.  I can't recall
another Broadway song which is so self-serving !

Robbie Rhodes
rrhodes@foxtail.com


(Message sent Sun 8 Jun 1997, 23:07:02 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

Key Words in Subject:  Daddy, Dear, Legs, Long, Old

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