I’ve had this song in my personal ‘favorites’ files since 2002, when it was only ninety-eight years old. Bruce Caplan’s post on George M. Cohan inspired me to dig out these words of wisdom from way back when.
In 1911, when RCA Victor released “Life’s a Funny Proposition”, the song was seven years old. It was introduced in 1904, along with “The Yankee Doodle Boy” and “Give My Regards to Broadway”, in Cohan’s Broadway production, “Johnny Jones”. Cohan sings this as the title character.
Life’s a Funny Proposition – George M. Cohan
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Dick Ellingson
A man and his dogs in a little country town. Parcel post crusher; blood'n'guts laundry serf; parking lot fender bender/bumper jumper; Lazy B flunkie with 7-word job title; P-I down crew; bobtail trucker; Sunbeam breader; retail store mangler; bothersome boiler roomie; fake real estate agent; d.j./copywriter/p.d./ripper/reader - 600 KGEZ Good Advertising, Kalispell; Community Radio 1510 KURB, Mountlake Terrace; 1540 News/MOR/92.5 Solid Gold Rock & Roll KFKF, Bellevue; 1150 Kountry KAYO America's Own Music, Seattle; 1300 KoMPaSs Radio 13 Modern Country, Seattle; 1360 KLFF Good Music & Great Memories, Glendale/Phoenix; 106.3 Koncert 106 KONC, Sun City/Phoenix; 1580 KCWW Real Country Network, Tempe/Phoenix. Four-year Volunteer P-I/Times/TNT news reader for Evergreen Radio Reading Service broadcasting from the Washington Talking Book & Braille Library, Seattle; dotcomboom day trader who came out alive; King County Metro Bus Driver; Seattle Streetcar Operator. I threw it in at 78 and frequently have bizarre dreams about radio and bus driving, my two preschool dream jobs. More articles by Dick