...waltzes'. But even in the 1890s, there are signs that the new century will not be like its predecessor: Hello! Ma Baby Hello! ma honey Hello! ma ragtime gal Send me a kiss by wire Baby, my heart's on fire! A telephone song, a 'coon song', a ragtime song - and suddenly lyrics about the latest novelty find...

...had been one of Gibson's models. CHAPTER FOUR The Teens Hello, my baby1. Hello, my honey! Hello, my ragtime gal! Send me a kiss by wire, baby my heart's on fire! -"Hello Ma Baby," Ida Emerson and Joe E. Howard, 1899 Nell was the subject of two popular songs in...

...DeROOT. They are clapping along with the song behind him.) ALL. ie\\o ma baby iello ma honey lello my ragtime gal. Send me a kiss by wire Baby, my heart's on fire! TOBEY. (Suddenly stops playing.) Mary Gallagher, what's ivrong with you? CAROLINE. Who the heck is...

..."Goodbye, My Lady Love" (1904) and Hughie Cannon's "Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home?" (1902). Hello! Ma baby. Hello! Ma honey. Hello! Ma ragtime gal. Send me a kiss by wire, baby, me heart's on fire! If your refuse me. Honey, you'll lose me, then you'll be left alone; Oh baby, telephone,...

...Flossie Hill! (Song: HELLO MY BABY (Reprise). LOUIE sings:) Hello, my baby, hello, my honey, Hello, my ragtime gal. Send me a kiss by wire, Baby my heart's on fire. FLO: (Sings.) lf you refuse me, honey, you'll lose me, Then you'll be left alone. LOUlE and FLO: (Sing.)...