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Hi all

During the high-days of mahjong in the USA, there was a popular song,
called 'Since Ma is Playing Mah Jong', sung by Eddie Cantor in 'Kid
Boots', and written by Billy Rose and Con Conrad (ukulele
accompaniment!).

It started like this:

I've got a wonderful mother
but of late she's not the same.
Things were O.K. until the day
Ma learned a new Chinese game.

I think I saw the sheet music in the Chiba Mahjong Museum. But although
I have looked a lot for it, I never succeeded in obtaining a copy of
the actual song, either on vinyl (78 rpm!) either digital.
So I wonder if anyone of this NG has a digital version? It would do
great in the mahjong movie I am making.

Thanks for your help :)

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> During the high-days of mahjong in the USA, there was a popular song,
> called 'Since Ma is Playing Mah Jong', sung by Eddie Cantor in 'Kid
> Boots', and written by Billy Rose and Con Conrad (ukulele
> accompaniment!).
>
> I think I saw the sheet music in the Chiba Mahjong Museum. But although
> I have looked a lot for it, I never succeeded in obtaining a copy of
> the actual song, either on vinyl (78 rpm!) either digital.
> So I wonder if anyone of this NG has a digital version? It would do
> great in the mahjong movie I am making.

Hello Martin,

Very interesting. It's the sort of things I like to collect. I don't
have a copy, but I found
http://www.redhotjazz.com/songs/om5/sincema.ram . I'll starting
searching for a better copy right now.

Nath.
 
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There's a Eddi Cantor Appreciation Society (
http://www.eddiecantor.com/ ) who might help you.
 
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Martin Rep wrote:
> Hi all
>
> During the high-days of mahjong in the USA, there was a popular song,
> called 'Since Ma is Playing Mah Jong', sung by Eddie Cantor in 'Kid
> Boots', and written by Billy Rose and Con Conrad (ukulele accompaniment!).
>
> It started like this:
>
> I've got a wonderful mother
> but of late she's not the same.
> Things were O.K. until the day
> Ma learned a new Chinese game.
>
> I think I saw the sheet music in the Chiba Mahjong Museum. But although
> I have looked a lot for it, I never succeeded in obtaining a copy of the
> actual song, either on vinyl (78 rpm!) either digital.
> So I wonder if anyone of this NG has a digital version? It would do
> great in the mahjong movie I am making.
>
> Thanks for your help :)
>

Google gave this:

RAM-version (RealPlayer-file) here:
http://www.redhotjazz.com/om5.html

?????
http://www.78rpm.com/pages/auction/vranow/eddpop2.htm
http://katalog.jpc-verzeichnis.de/Original%20Columbia.html


OFF topic:
About the racism cover:
http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=1310030
Sheet:
http://www.mahjongmuseum.com/mj176.htm
http://www.mah-jongg.de/museum_04b.html
Eddie Cantor:
http://www.musicweb.uk.net/encyclopaedia/c/C25.HTM


regards

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Vegard Krog Petersen <vegard_krog_petersen@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:

> RAM-version (RealPlayer-file) here:
> http://www.redhotjazz.com/om5.html

This is not the full original text of course.
I own the note sheet with the full text and indeed - that is soft racism pure ...

Nethertheless: It is Mah-Jongg history!

Cheers,
Uwe

www.mah-jongg.de
 
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> This is not the full original text of course.
> I own the note sheet with the full text and indeed - that is soft racism pure ...
>
> Nethertheless: It is Mah-Jongg history!

I imagine that on live radio they played the full version. But on
disc, it was hard (if not impossible) to record more than 3 minutes of
music. Thus the existence of the short version.
 
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"Martin Rep" <mrep@mahjongnews.com> wrote

> During the high-days of mahjong in the USA, there was a popular song,
> called 'Since Ma is Playing Mah Jong', sung by Eddie Cantor
>
> I think I saw the sheet music in the Chiba Mahjong Museum.


I have a copy of the sheet music...

Tom
 
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On 2004-05-14 08:23:15 +0200, majiang@mac.com (Uwe Martens) said:

>
> This is not the full original text of course.
> I own the note sheet with the full text and indeed - that is soft
> racism pure ...
>
> Nethertheless: It is Mah-Jongg history!
>
> Cheers,
> Uwe
>
> www.mah-jongg.de

Uwe, I'd be most interested to read the full text. Please post it here!
And yes, I would love to recieve a scan of that note sheet.

Meanwhile, I am still looking for the original Eddie Cantor recording.
The e-mail address of the Cantor-fanclub does not seem to be valid
anymore. So more help would be greatly appreciated.

Tom (helloooooo!), you seem to entertain a good relationship with NMJL.
Would not they know anything?

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|
|Martin Rep
|The Independent Internet Mahjong Newspaper
|Mahjong News:
|www.mahjongnews.com
|The Dutch Championship Riichi Mahjong:
|www.riichi.tk
|The Golden Dragon Hong Kong Mahjong Club:
|www.gouden-draak.nl
 
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"Martin Rep" <mrep@mahjongnews.com> wrote
>
> Meanwhile, I am still looking for the original Eddie Cantor recording.
> The e-mail address of the Cantor-fanclub does not seem to be valid
> anymore. So more help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Tom (helloooooo!), you seem to entertain a good relationship with NMJL.
> Would not they know anything?

I think it's unlikely that they would know where you could get the Eddie
Cantor recording. You would have more luck trying collectors of old 78rpm
records, methinks.

Tom
 
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Martin Rep <mrep@mahjongnews.com> wrote in message news:
>
> Uwe, I'd be most interested to read the full text. Please post it here!

You can find the full text on my website now:
http://www.mah-jongg.de/museum_04b.html

> And yes, I would love to recieve a scan of that note sheet.

Martin, I will send it to you.

Cheers,
Uwe
 
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On 2004-05-15 15:07:20 +0200, majiang@mac.com (Uwe Martens) said:

> Martin Rep <mrep@mahjongnews.com> wrote in message news:
>>
>> Uwe, I'd be most interested to read the full text. Please post it here!
>
> You can find the full text on my website now:
> http://www.mah-jongg.de/museum_04b.html
>
>> And yes, I would love to recieve a scan of that note sheet.
>
> Martin, I will send it to you.

I got it now, thanks a lot 🙂

>
> Cheers,
> Uwe


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|
|Martin Rep
|The Independent Internet Mahjong Newspaper
|Mahjong News:
|www.mahjongnews.com
|The Dutch Championship Riichi Mahjong:
|www.riichi.tk
|The Golden Dragon Hong Kong Mahjong Club:
|www.gouden-draak.nl
 
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