We're All Going Calling on the Kaiser is an American World War I era song written by Jack Caddigan and James A. Brennan, published by Leo Feist on February 16, 1918.[1][2] The humorous song declared "We've got to teach the Kaiser to be wiser," with couplets like "And we'll bring him something good / A kimono made of wood."[3] The song was recorded on Columbia records by Arthur Fields and Peerless Quartette[4] and on Victor by William J. ("Sailor") Reilly.[5]
The song was part of a genre of "Kaiser-hanging songs," which numbered more than a hundred in 1917 and 1918.[6] The title page featured an illustration of the Kaiser recoiling as US troops entered Berlin.[6]
References
edit- ^ "We're All Going Calling On The Kaiser". digital.library.illinois.edu. Retrieved January 22, 2020.
- ^ Poague, George (May 17, 2009). "Propaganda infiltrated movies as United States entered WWI". The Leaf-Chronicle. p. B3. ProQuest 441839520. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
- ^ Dolph, Edward Arthur; Egner, Philip (1942). "Sound Off!": Soldier Songs from the Revolution to World War II. Farrar & Rinehart. p. 171.
- ^ Fields, Arthur (1918). "We're All Going Calling on the Kaiser". Internet Archive. Retrieved May 23, 2022.
- ^ Reilly, William J. (1918). "We're All Going Calling on the Kaiser". Internet Archive. Retrieved May 23, 2022.
- ^ a b Slonimsky, Nicholas (2014). Slonimsky's Book of Musical Anecdotes. Taylor & Francis. p. 72. ISBN 978-1-135-36860-9. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
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