GRGR: Those Frenchmen

[davemarc]

Tonight, after watching the millennial Mary and Rhoda reunion, I listened
to Sophie Tucker on vinyl singing "Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong."
 I checked the date on the recording.  Turned out to be April 15, 1927
(Okeh).  That's about four years earlier than the Texas Guinan reference
given by Weisenburger.

I'm not gonna transcribe the song's lyrics right now, but I will note that
they're saucy--very Mae West (or Sophie Tucker)--and that they include a
couple of anti-censorship verses (along the lines of "we censor things but
the French don't, and they can't be wrong").

d.