Goodbye Mama (I'm off to Yokohama)
| "Goodbye Mama (I'm off to Yokohama)" | |
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J. Fred Coots |
"Goodbye Mama (I'm off to Yokohama)" is a
Boy Scout hiking song.[2]
The song was recorded in 1942 by a number of artists, including Dick Robertson, Frankie Masters,[3] and Teddy Powell.
A sequel song, "Goodbye Maria (I'm Off To Korea)", was recorded by country musician Wilf Carter in 1950.
The sheet music can be found at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library.
References
- OCLC 24599304
- OCLC 50868277
- ^ "Goodbye Mama (I'm Off to Yokohama)". Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Retrieved 2023-08-18.
Bibliography
- Cooper, B. Lee, and Wayne S. Haney. 1999. Rock music in American popular culture III, III. Rock Music in American Popular Culture. New York: Haworth Press. OCLC 772542638
- Jasen, David A. 1988. Tin Pan Alley: the composers, the songs, the performers, and their times: the golden age of American popular music from 1886 to 1956. New York: D.I. Fine.OCLC 18135644
- Jones, John Bush. 2006. The songs that fought the war: popular music and the home front: 1939-1945. Hanover: Univ. Press of New England. OCLC 237080140
- Smith, Kathleen E. R. God Bless America: Tin Pan Alley Goes to War. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2003. Print. OCLC 50868277
- Zinsser, William. 2006. Easy to remember: the great American songwriters and their songs. Jaffrey, N.H.: David R. Godine. OCLC 150438201