Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow Wow
Composer:
Joseph Tabrar
Genre: World / Folk
Decade: before 1923
Submitted by: Russell Ambrose
Description:
"Daddy Wouldn’t Buy Me a Bow Wow" is a song written in 1892 by prolific English songwriter Joseph Tabrar.
It was written for, and first performed in 1892 by, Vesta Victoria at the South London Palace, holding a kitten.[1] The same year it was recorded by Silas Leachman for the North American Phonograph Co. of Chicago (Talking Machine Company of Chicago/Chicago Talking Machine). In 1895 Toulouse-Lautrec painted May Belfort singing it. The comedian Arthur Roberts also had success in the 1890s with the song.[2]
by: Russell Ambrose