Ada Jones & Walter Van Brunt sing "Googy-oo" on Indestructible Record 1161, issued in 1909.<br /><br />The song is by Edward E. Rice and was featured in the show titled The Candy Shop.<br /><br />You remember how you wooed me<br />And with loving words pursued me<br /><br />No, I really can't exactly say I do<br /><br />And the happy hours I squandered <br />As beside the brook we wandered<br /><br />I don't believe I wandered there with you<br /><br />The admission may be shady<br />'Twas perhaps another lady<br />How you gazed so fondly <br />Down into my eyes<br /><br />I think she must be silly<br />No, I'm not your little Willy<br /><br />How you whispered then <br />The secret that I cried<br /><br />Birds are calling<br />Night was falling<br />The moon behind the clouds<br />Played peek-a-boo<br /><br />In the gloaming<br />As we were roaming<br /><br />You called me then <br />Your little googy-oogy-oo<br />Googy-oogy-oogy-oo<br />Googy-oogy-oogy-oo<br /><br />Did I ever use a name <br />Such a name as this to you?<br /><br />Googy-oogy-oogy-oo<br />Googy-oogy-oogy-oo<br />When in love you never know<br />Just what you ought to do<br /><br />As a tiger once you caught me<br />Fiercely pull my love, you false me<br /><br />Now, I really don't remember fighting you<br /><br />Through the jungle, then we rambled<br />You beside me, gently ambled<br /><br />I don't believe I ambled there with you<br /><br />As we strolled along the Niger <br />'Twas perhaps some other tiger<br />There was music in the way <br />We used to roam<br /><br />Now I think I do recall it<br />When I couldn't squeak I squalid (?)<br /><br />How I long to hear you roaring as of yore<br /><br />Birds are calling<br />Nights were falling<br />The moon behind the clouds <br />Played peek-a-boo<br /><br />In the gloaming<br />As we were roaming<br /><br />You called me then <br />Your little googy-oogy-oo<br />Googy-oogy-oogy-oo <br />Googy-oogy-oogy-oo<br /><br />Did I ever use a name<br />Such a name as this to you?<br /><br />Googy-oogy-oogy-oo <br />Googy-oogy-oogy-oo<br />When in love you never know<br />Just what you ought to do<br /><br /><br />Ada Jones lived from June 1, 1873, to May 2, 1922. She was the leading female recording artist in the acoustic recording era, especially popular from 1905 to 1912 or so. Her singing range was limited, but she was remarkably versatile, successful with vaudeville sketches, sentimental ballads, hits from Broadway shows, British music hall material, "coon" and ragtime songs, and Irish comic songs. <br /><br />She was known for an ability to mimic dialects.<br /><br />Victor catalogs listed roles at which she excelled: "Whether Miss Jones' impersonation be that of a darky wench, a little German maiden, a 'fresh' saleslady, a cowboy girl, a country damsel, Mrs. Flanagan or an Irish colleen, a Bowery tough girl, a newsboy or a grandmother, it is invariably a perfect one of its kind."<br /><br />Columbia catalogs as late as 1921 stated: "Miss Jones is without question the cleverest singer of soubrette songs, popular child ballads and popular ragtime hits adaptable for the soprano voice now recording for any Company. She is also one of the most popular singers in the record field and her records have been heard in all quarters of the globe. Her duet records with Mr. [Walter] Van Brunt, unique and entertaining as they are, have also come in for unlimited popular approval."<br /><br />
