The Jazz Singer, "Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goo' Bye)" - 1927 (83-85)

When was "Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goo' Bye)" first performed?

1922

When is the Jazz Singer version of "Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goo' Bye)" performed?

1927

What does the presence of the word “jazz” in the first talking picture illustrate?

How far the style came from its initial negative associations with the “red light districts”

What is the form of "Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goo' Bye)?"

Verse-Chorus

"Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goo' Bye)" resembled which common Tin Pan Alley structure?

Verse-Chorus

What is the subtitle on the sheet music for "Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goo' Bye)?"

“A Cute Fox Trot Song”

What is the foxtrot?

A social dance with relatively simple movements

What is the time signature of typical foxtrot music pieces?

4/4 or 2/4

Who are the composers for "Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goo' Bye)?"

Gus Kahn, Ernie Erdman, Dan Russo

What was the goal of the composers of "Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goo' Bye)" in writing the subtitle on the sheet music?

To market the song to a wide audience

A commercial recording from which year is used as the listening example?

1922

How does "Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goo' Bye)" resemble New Orleans jazz?

The accompanying ensemble has a heterophonic texture in several portions

Which instrument interjects with glissandos in the intro, interlude, and coda?

Trombone

How is "Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goo' Bye)" similar to Sweet Georgia Brown?

It features a hemiola of triple meter against the notated cut time.

How is attention drawn to the hemiola in "Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goo' Bye)?"

Using the hemiola for the title phrase in the repetitive chorus.

What notes are featured in the hemiola during the title phrase of the chorus?

Quarter and half notes

How many flats are in the key signature of "Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goo' Bye)?"

3

What is the key of "Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goo' Bye)?"

Eb Major

What embellishment is done to the quarter notes In "Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goo' Bye)?"

Accented

What duration note is only featured once in the titular phrase of "Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goo' Bye)?"

Whole note on “Bye!”

What is the meter of "Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goo' Bye)?"

1&2&1&2&

How is the triple meter hemiola counted?

123123

Which chorus features significant syncopated rhythms?

The second chorus

jolson’s repetition of “bye” resembles what technique?

scat singing

Jolson’s bending of pitches is similar to whose technique in what piece?

Bessie Smith in “Lost Your Head Blues”

The steady pulse of "Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goo' Bye)" is quite ________

danceable

“this song has become associated with the ______ and ______ of the _______ during the Roaring Twenties

age;image;flapper

How does "Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goo' Bye)" begin?

Treble instruments playing syncopated melody from the chorus with heterophony in the backround; prominent trombone glissandos

How is the form of "Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goo' Bye)" notated?

Intro-Verse-Chorus-Interlude-Verse-Chorus-Coda-Tag

What occurs in the first verse of "Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goo' Bye)?"

Heterophony from introduction continues

How is the first half of the first chorus similar to the introductiona and first verse?

They all feature heterophony

What occurs in the first half of the first chorus in "Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goo' Bye)?"

Syncopated melody created a hemiola effect and heterophyn continues

What occurs in the second half of the first chorus of "Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goo' Bye)?"

Slides on certain words and increasing chromaticism

What occurs in the interlude of "Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goo' Bye)?"

Material from the intr returns (syncopated melody from the Chorus played by treble instruments and trombone glissandos featured

What occurs in the second verse?

Heterophony

What occurs in the second chorus of "Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goo' Bye)?"

Jolson makes text changes and adds embellishments (bends and slides) scat singing g too

What occurs in the coda of "Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goo' Bye)?"

Material from intr returns (syncopated chorus melody in treble instrments with prominent trombone glissandos)

Does "Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goo' Bye)"have a coda and tag?

Yes

Is there a tag in "Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goo' Bye)?"

Yes

What occurs in the tag of "Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goo' Bye?)"

Rhythmic Unison

What words feature slides in the second half of the first chorus?

“Oh” and “cry”

What is described In the first verse of "Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goo' Bye)?"

A lover getting a board their train 7 times, hurrying back 7 times, and kissing his love/telling her something 7 times

What is the first line of the first verse in “Toot, Toot Tootsie!”?

“Yesterday I heard a lover sigh”

What is the last line of the first verse of “Toot, Toot, Tootsie!”?

“To kiss his love again and tell her:”

What is the first verse of “Toot, Toot, Tootsie!”?

“Yesterday I heard a lover sigh/Goodbye, oh me oh my, Seven times he got aboard his train/ And seven times he hurried back/To kiss his love again and tell her:”

What is the first line of the first chorus in “Toot, Toot, Tootsie!”?

“Toot, Toot, Tootsie goo’ bye!”

What is the last line in the first half of the first chorus in “Toot, Toot, Tootsie!”?

“Kiss me, kiss me, Tootsie, and then,”

What is the first half of the first chorus in “Toot, Toot, Tootsie!”?

““Toot, Toot, Tootsie goo’ bye!/ Toot, Toot, Tootsie, don’t cry,/That little choo-choo train that takes me/Away from you, no words can tell how sad it makes me,/ Kiss me, kiss me, Tootsie, and then,”

What is the first line in the second half of the first chorus of “Toot, Toot, Tootsie!”?

“Oh baby, do it over again,”

What is the last line in the second half of the first chorus in “Toot, Toot, Tootsie!”?

“Toot Toot Tootsie, goo’bye.”

What are the lyrics in the first chorus in “Toot, Toot, Tootsie!”?

“Toot, Toot, Tootsie goo’ bye!/Toot, Toot, Tootsie, don’t cry,/That little choo-choo train that takes me/Away from you, no words can tell how sad it makes me,/Kiss me, kiss me, Tootsie, and then/ Oh baby, do it over again,/Watch for the mail, I’ll never fail/And if you don’t get a letter, then you know I’m in jail./”Tut, Tut, Tut, Tut, Tut, Tootsie, don’t cry,/Toot Toot Tootsie, goo’ bye.”

The interlude is between which 2 sections of “Toot, Toot, Tootsie!”?

The first chorus and second verse

What is the first line of the second verse in “Toot, Toot, Tootsie!”?

“When someone says goodbye to me”

What is the last line of the second verse of “Toot, Toot, Tootsie!”?

“Saying goodbye to his treasure:”

What is the second verse of “Toot, Toot, Tootsie!”?

“When somebody says goodbye to me,/ Oh I’m sad as I can be,/ Not so with this loving Romeo,/He seems to take a lot of pleasure/ Saying goodbye to his treasure:”

How many lines does each verse in “Toot, Toot, Tootsie!”? Contain?

5 lines

How many lines are in the first chorus of “Toot, Toot, Tootsie!”?

10

How many lines are in the second chorus of “Toot, Toot, Tootsie!”?

9

What is the first line of the second chorus in “Toot, Toot, Tootsie!”?

“Toot, Toot, Tootsie goo’ bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye!”

In the First and Second chorus “Tut” is repeated how many times before the speaker addresses his audience?

5 times (“Tut, Tut, Tut, Tut, Tut, Tootsie, don’t cry",”

How many times is “bye” repeated in the ffirst line of the second chorus?

8 times

How many times is “kiss me” repeated in the first and second chorus before the speaker finishes his statement?

2 times

How many times is “don’t cry” repeated in succession in the second chorus?

3 times

What is the final line of the second chorus of “Toot, Toot, Tootsie!”?

“Toot Toot Tootsie, goo’ bye.”

What is the first line of Toot Toot Tootsie? What is its last line?

“Yesterday I heard a lover sigh” and ““Toot Toot Tootsie, goo’ bye.”

How do the first and last lines of Toot Toot Tootsie go together?

It can essentially summarize the work as the 3rd party individual hears the “lover sigh” “Toot Toot Tootsie goo’ bye” which are the first and second line respectively.

What is the second chorus of “Toot, Toot, Tootsie!”?

“Toot, Toot, Tootsie goo’ bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye!/Toot, Toot Tootsie, don’t cry,/ That little choo-choo, that little train that takes, that takes me/Away from you no,no words can tell how sad it makes me/Kiss me, kiss me, Tootsie, and then oh, ho ho, do it over again,/ And though I heard, New things to learn/I’ll keep playing solitaire until I return/Tut, Tut, Tut, Tut, Tut, Tootsie, don’t cry, don’t cry, don’t cry,/ Toot Toot Tootsie goo’ bye.”

What does the first verse narratively tell in “Toot, Toot, Tootsie!”?

How the 3rd party who heard the “lover” got aboard his train and hurried back to his love to tell her goodbye.

What does the second verse narratively tell?

How when someone says goodbye to this 3rd party who is hearing the lover say goodbye would be sad saying goodbye to someone whereas the lover (Romeo) “ takes a lot of pleasure saying goodbye to his treasure”