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K-K-K-Katy
Sign in to save"K-K-K-Katy" is a World War I-era song written by Canadian-American composer Geoffrey O'Hara in 1917 and published in 1918. The sheet music advertised it as "The Sensational Stammering Song Success Sung by the Soldiers and Sailors", as well as "The Sensational New Stammering Song" The song was first played at a garden party fund-raiser for the Red Cross in Collins Bay on Lake Ontario. O'Hara was from Chatham, Ontario, and taught music at several universities.
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Vinony's link graph records 100 inbound references to K-K-K-Katy, and connects out to Billy Murray, World War II and World War I.
Vinony files it under 1917 songs, American novelty songs and Billy Murray (singer) songs.
Vinony links it to 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Main subject
- adoration
- Composer
- Geoffrey O'Hara
- Lyrics by
- Geoffrey O'Hara
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- Commons category
- K-K-K-Katy
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- K-K-K-Katy
- publication date
- 1917-00-00
- copyright status
- public domain
- form of creative work
- song
- language of work or name
- English language
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- Later performances and parodies
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- Further reading
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"K-K-K-Katy" is a World War I-era song written by Canadian-American composer Geoffrey O'Hara in 1917 and published in 1918. The sheet music advertised it as "The Sensational Stammering Song Success Sung by the Soldiers and Sailors", as well as "The Sensational New Stammering Song" The song was first played at a garden party fund-raiser for the Red Cross in Collins Bay on Lake Ontario. O'Hara was from Chatham, Ontario, and taught music at several universities.
The lyrics tell of a brave but stuttering soldier called Jimmy who is lovesick over the beautiful Katy. He buys a wedding ring before going to fight in France. The inspiration for the "Katy" of the song was Katherine Craig Richardson of Kingston, Ontario. She was a friend of O'Hara's sister, and her parents recall O'Hara writing the song in their living room.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “K-K-K-Katy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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