Shows · Hitchy-Koo

Hitchy-Koo

Opened 1917

220 performances

Revue, Early

Joseph C. Smiths Orchestra Hitchy-Koo 10in Shellac 78 RPM Record Victor 18334 Image 1 of 4 — eBay seller listing photograph

Hitchy-Koo is a 1912 American popular song and a series of musical revues, inspired by the song, staged on Broadway each year from 1917 through 1920 and on tour in 1922.

Music: Cole Porter
Lyrics: Cole Porter
Book: Glen MacDonough

Productions1 on Broadway

1917

Cohan & Harris TheatreBroadway Original, opened June 7, 1917, directed by Leon Errol

220 performances

Hitchy-Koo is a 1912 American popular song and a series of musical revues, inspired by the song, staged on Broadway each year from 1917 through 1920 and on tour in 1922. Described by Variety magazine as a "hit song of 1912", the song was composed by Lewis F. Muir and Maurice Abrahams with lyrics by L. Wolfe Gilbert. Historian Eve Golden stated that the song is "a popular standard from the second-wave of ragtime tunes". Ian Whitcomb wrote that it was one of the first American popular songs to influence musical taste and culture in the United Kingdom with the "invasion of American popular music" in 1912.

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