Don't Bring Lulu

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| name = Don't Bring Lulu

| cover = Don't Bring Lulu.jpg

| alt = Cover art

| caption = Cover of sheet music (1925)

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| released = {{Start date|1925}}

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| recorded = Billy Jones, Billy Murray, and many others

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| genre = Dixieland jazz

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| composer = Ray Henderson

| lyricist = Lew Brown / Billy Rose

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| misc = {{External music video|header=Official audio|{{YouTube|3UhQ0TezoY|"Don't Bring Lulu"}}}}

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"Don't Bring Lulu" is a 1925 Dixieland jazz song.{{cite web| url=https://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/d/dontbringlulu.html | title=Don't Bring Lulu | work=International Lyrics Playground | accessdate=26 May 2020 }}{{cite web| url=https://secondhandsongs.com/work/170095 | title=Don't Bring Lulu | work=SecondHandSong | accessdate=26 May 2020 }}

Background

"Don't Bring Lulu" was first published by Jerome H. Remick, based in Detroit and New York City, United States, in 1925.{{cite web| url=https://www.songfacts.com/facts/dorothy-provine/dont-bring-lulu | title=Don't Bring Lulu | work=SongFacts | accessdate=26 May 2020 }} It is the 63rd most covered song from 1925. "Lulu" in the song is a 1920s flapper. The song lyrics include a reference to the traditional nursery rhyme and singing game for parties, "London Bridge Is Falling Down".

The sheet music is credited to Billy Rose, Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson. It was originally a novelty song and was often recorded by male singers in a comic style, including Billy Jones and Ernest Hare for example, with additional dialogue. A praised recording was the 1960 single by Dorothy Provine, backed by Whisper Song. She also performed the song for the American television series The Roaring 20's, which was aired during 1960–1962.

Recordings

The following performed and recorded the song in the year it was first published (1925):

Ernest Hare and Billy Jones{{cite web| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BelQE2Qce_s | title=Roaring 20s:Billy Jones, Ernest Hare – Don't Bring Lulu, 1925 | work=YouTube | date=10 October 2007 | accessdate=26 May 2020 }}
Billy Murray (1925){{cite web| url=https://genius.com/Murray-billy-dont-bring-lulu-lyrics | title=Don't Bring Lulu – Murray Billy | work=Genius | accessdate=26 May 2020 }}{{cite web| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMHK7k8t4xg | title=Billy Murray – Don't Bring Lulu 1925 | work=YouTube | date=21 April 2014 | accessdate=26 May 2020 }}
Van and Schenck
Nathan Glantz and His Orchestra{{cite web| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NCnw88e_WA | title=Nathan Glantz and his Orchestra – Don't bring Lulu – 1925 | work=YouTube | date=21 March 2013 | accessdate=27 May 2020 }} (vocals: Chick Straun{{cite web| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlF6Z2BKgH0 | title="Don't Bring Lulu!" (Chick Straun, 1925) | work=YouTube | date=13 July 2008 | accessdate=27 May 2020 }})
Hall and Ryan
The Little Ramblers (vocals: Billy Jones)
Jan Garber and His Orchestra (instrumental){{cite web| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLHKyCI4tGA | title=Roaring Twenties: Jan Garber's Orch. – Don't Bring Lulu! 1925 | work=YouTube | date=25 January 2008 | accessdate=27 May 2020 }}
Benny Krueger's Orchestra (vocals: Billy Jones)
Sam Lanin and His Orchestra (vocals: Ernest Hare)
The Gilt-Edged Four (instrumental)
Jeffries and His Rialto Orchestra (vocals: John Thorne)

The following performed and recorded the song in later years:

Frank Sinatra and Jack Carson (radio transcript) (1946){{cite web| url=https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/137223/Frank+Sinatra/Don%27t+Bring+Lulu | title=Don't Bring Lulu – Frank Sinatra, Jack Carson | work=Lyrics | accessdate=26 May 2020 }}
Tiny Hill and His Orchestra (vocals: Tiny Hill) (1953)
The Andrews Sisters (with Billy May's Orchestra) 1958){{cite web| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t7UMGeY-Kw | title=The Andrews Sisters – Don't Bring Lulu (1958) | work=YouTube | date=23 January 2014 | accessdate=26 May 2020 }}
Bobby Short (1959)
"Big" Tiny Little (instrumental) (1959)
Dorothy Provine (featured in the television series The Roaring 20's) (1960){{cite web| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_5eXN6bkyg | title=Dorothy Provine – "Don't Bring Lulu" | work=YouTube | date=30 April 2013 | accessdate=26 May 2020 }}
Max Bygraves with Ted Heath and His Music (1960)
Kay Barry (1961)
Clinton Ford (1961)
Victor Silvester and His Ballroom Orchestra (instrumental) (1961)
Mitch Miller and The Gang (1962)
Gery Scott (1962)
Mrs Mills (instrumental) (1962)
The Buffalo Bills (1965)
The Billy Vaughn Singers (1969)
The Oxcentrics (1976)
Bobbysocks! (1985){{cite web| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3fVLAhisWo | title=Bobbysocks – Don't Bring Lulu (1985) | work=YouTube | date=2 December 2015 | accessdate=26 May 2020 }}
Adam Swanson (piano, vocals: Frederick Hodges, additional modern lyrics) (2009){{cite web| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0ZlUd3syuI | title="Don't Bring Lulu" – Frederick Hodges vocal with Adam Swanson at the piano – June 2009 | work=YouTube | date=8 June 2009 | accessdate=26 May 2020 }}
The Oxcentrics (2020, in lockdown){{cite web| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oBloZ14MbM | title=The Oxcentrics. Don't Bring Lulu | first=Simon | last=Wallace | author-link=Simon Wallace | work=YouTube | date=3 June 2020 | accessdate=3 June 2020 }}