Sheet music cover with picture of Charlotte Greenwood (1919) "Oh By Jingo! " (also "Oh By Jingo! Oh By Gee You're The Only Girl For Me "), is a 1919 novelty song by Albert Von Tilzer with lyrics by Lew Brown . The song was featured in the Broadway show "Linger Longer Letty ", and became one of the biggest Tin Pan Alley hits of the post-World War I era.
While the song lyrics say it is set in "the land of San Domingo ", no geographic nor anthropological accuracy is found nor intended in the silly lyrics, set in a generic "exotic" and "primitive" location. The song was much imitated over the next decade.
The song appeared several times in film and television: it was performed by Betty Hutton in the film Incendiary Blonde (1945); by Debbie Reynolds and Bobby Van as a specialty number in the Esther Williams MGM vehicle, Skirts Ahoy! ; sung in the I Love Lucy TV show (Season 4, ep. 2, "Mertz and Kurtz", October 11, 1954); and sung by Hugh Laurie in P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster (Season 4, ep. 5).
The 1970 song "After All " by David Bowie , from the album The Man Who Sold the World contains the repeated phrase 'Oh By Jingo' which is inspired by the song.[ 1]
^ Clerc, Benoît (2021). David Bowie All the Songs The Story Behind Every Track . Running Press. Who Wrote that Song? Dick Jacobs & Harriet Jacobs, published by Writer's Digest Books, 1993
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