We're All Going Calling on the Kaiser explained

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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: We're All Going Calling On The Kaiser. digital.library.illinois.edu. 2020-01-22.
  2. News: Poague . George . Propaganda infiltrated movies as United States entered WWI . 19 July 2020 . . May 17, 2009 . B3. .
  3. Book: Dolph . Edward Arthur . Egner . Philip . "Sound Off!": Soldier Songs from the Revolution to World War II . 1942 . Farrar & Rinehart . 171.
  4. Web site: Fields . Arthur . 1918 . We're All Going Calling on the Kaiser . May 23, 2022 . Internet Archive.
  5. Web site: Reilly . William J. . 1918 . We're All Going Calling on the Kaiser . May 23, 2022 . Internet Archive.
  6. Book: Slonimsky . Nicholas . Slonimsky's Book of Musical Anecdotes . 2014 . Taylor & Francis . 978-1-135-36860-9 . 72 . 19 July 2020.

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