Show sweet adeline Is Lifes life s work but composers ready for retirement now NEW harry armstrong now 71 thinks it ii might be nice to retire but sweet Adel adeline lne wont let him As a matter of ot fact sweet ade line has been managing arm strongs life for foi him for the last 54 years back bacaj in 1098 1896 when me he was a young prize lighter fighter in boston who liked to play the piano he wrote the words and music of a little song called my old now new england horne home that was sweet Adel adeline lne 1 I the natty white haired composer ex pla ined but it had other lyrics they were awful lyrics too five years later hw he decided to cut the ring dead in favor favoron of song writing 1 I had tried to peddle that song to every publisher in boston they all laughed me out 04 0 their offices when I 1 came to new york I 1 met jimmy walker he became mayor later you bow know but he ha was writing parodies and vaudeville then ile he took a belt at new lyrics walker ara and armstrong did turn out a moderate hit goodbye eyes of blue 11 walker also introduced him to richard H gerard another lyrics writer with the idea he could set some borne words to armstrongs music one day we were walking do down wn broadway and we saw a billboard advertising adelina patti the sing er mats it i 1 said how we got toa the lyrics for sweet adeline armstrongs publisher agreed to tak takei et th the e s song ong th then e n but it h hung un g around gathering cobwebs on the shelf until 1903 when the quaker city pour four a barbershop quartet dug it up and sang it it at the rod hod hammerstein Hammerst eln victoria |