>On Jul 4, 1:55 pm, Mack A. Damia hotmail.com> wrote:

>> On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 10:29:15 -0700 (PDT), Darrin aol.com>
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>>>On Jul 4, 12:02 am, Mack A. Damia hotmail.com> wrote:

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>>>> It's time to remember George M.
>>>> I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy
>>>> A Yankee Doodle, do or die
>>>> A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam
>>>> Born on the Fourth of July

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>>>> I've got a Yankee Doodle sweetheart
>>>> She's my Yankee Doodle joy
>>>> Yankee Doodle came to London
>>>> Just to ride the ponies
>>>> I am the Yankee Doodle Boy
>>>> mad

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>>>Or in honor of alt.circumcision, Yank my Doodle!ehee Cohan is often
>>>assumed, but not a sweet Jew! eh But alas, who needs Cohan when we
>>>have sweet Irving Berlin (b. Baline, raised in NYC), who penned
>>>America's greatest national anthem, "God Bless America!" If you can,
>>>don't forget to tune into America's largest fireworks display/
>>>telecast, ala Macy's 32nd Annual Live 4th of July Spectactular Show on
>>>NBC, NYC:http://tinyurl.com/5fgps9-D, NYC "And you can here it in my
>>>accent when I talk, I'm an Englishman in New York" - STING.."On
>>>November 1, 1683, the British formed Kings (aka Brooklyn) & Queens
>>>Counties, naming the regions in honor of England's King Charles II and
>>>his wife, Catherine of Braganza" - LITTLE BIG BOOK OF NEW YORK.."Named
>>>Heere Street (High Street) by the Dutch, Broadway was one of two main
>>>trading routes leading north from the tip of lower Manhattan. During
>>>the American Revolution, British and American troops traveled and
>>>fought along it" - IBID.."The statue of King George III in Bowling
>>>Green was destroyed by riots in 1776, melted down, and turned into
>>>musket balls used to fire against the British during the Revolutionary
>>>War" - IBID.."On July 9, 1776 the Declaration of Independence was read
>>>aloud to General Washington's troops in New York".."New York City was
>>>briefly the US capital from 1789 to 1790" - IBID.."Central Park is
>>>home to 25M visitors a year - 250,000 on a spring weekend. All the
>>>pedestrian paths in CP add up to 58 miles. There are 800 species of
>>>birds in North America - 275 of them can be seen in CP. The northern
>>>end of CP was the site of a series of fortifications for the
>>>Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. Since 1908, more than 175
>>>movies have contained scenes in CP. CP is 843 acres - a larger area
>>>than the principality of Monaco - and contains more than 500,000 trees
>>>and shrubs. CP's Mall, culminating at Bethesda Terrace, was envisioned
>>>by Olmstead and Vaux as the "grand promenade" for park visitors to see
>>>and be seen. It was the only formal architectural design element in
>>>the park. In 1961 and 1965 respectively, the Metropolitan Opera and
>>>the New York Philharmonic began giving free concerts in the park.
>>>Shakespeare in the park started in 1962." - IBID.."As one of the
>>>greatest American Universities, Columbia University was founded in
>>>1754 as King's College by royal charter of King George II of England.
>>>It is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New
>>>York and the fifth oldest in the United States" - COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY,
>>>NYC>

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>> Catholic parents, but he was known as "the man who owned Broadway".
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_M._Cohan

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>While there's no denying his influence, 'The Great White Way' is
>primarily a Jewish phenomenon. Most of your great musicals were penned
>by sweets. From Berlin to Gershwin, from Kander & Ebb to Lerner &
>Loewe, from Bernstein to Hammerstein, from Rodgers & Hart to Sondheim,
>from Sammy Cahn to Jerome Kern, the list goes on and on. -D, NYC
>"There are now only four theatres actually situated on Broadway: The
>Marquis (46th), The Palace (47th), The Winter Garden (50th) and The
>Broadway (53rd)." -LITTLE BIG BOOK OF NEW YORK.."Broadway is the
>longest city street in the world. It stretches 150 miles from Bowling
>Green to Albany." - IBID.."Broadway theatres were among the first to
>wow crowds by using electric bulbs on signs - the bright lights earned
>the Broadway stretch between 42nd & 53rd streets the nickname "The
>Great White Way." - IBID.."Longacre Square was renamed Times Square
>when the New York Times Building was erected in 1904." - IBID.."The
>Booth Theatre was nicknamed after one of America's greatest 19th
>century classical actors, Edwin Booth (brother of Lincoln assassin
>John
>Wilkes Booth)." - IBID.."Mae West's 1926 play Sex, about a Montreal
>prostitute, ran for a year before the city charged the company with
>lewdness and the corrupting of youth. She spent 10 days in jail." -
>IBID.."New York City theatres became desegregated in 1912." -
>IBID.."The original production of The Wizard of Oz was the premier
>performance at the Majestic Theatre on January 21, 1903." -
>IBID.."Economically, the 1927-28 season is the most successful in the
>history of New York City theatre: 264 shows opened in 76 Broadway
>theatres." - IBID.."Before the advent of air conditioning, most
>theatres closed down during the summer." - IBID.."The longest running
>show in Broadway history was Cats. It opened at the Winter Garden
>Theatre in 1982, and didn't close until 2000." - IBID.."Dustin Hoffman
>(sweet) shared a New York City apartment with Gene Hackman (sweet)
>while he studied at the Actor's Studio, and worked as a janitor and
>attendant in a mental hospital." - IBID.."What I took back, because of
>my exposure to the Jewish music of the '30s and the '40s in my
>upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It
>was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh" -
>PETE TOWNSHEND.."In the matter of numbers, the Jew counts for little
>in the overwhelming population of New York, but that his honesty
>counts for much is guaranteed by the fact that the immense wholesale
>business of Broadway, from the Battery to Union Square, is
>substantially in his hands" - MARK TWAIN.."Sons of a peddler in
>upstate New York, Sam, Lee & Jacob Shubert built their own theatre row
>from one end of Broadway to the other. They filled their stages with
>over five hundred plays and helped advance the careers of Al Jolson,
>Eddie Cantor, and Fanny Brice" - THE JEWISH BOOK OF LISTS BY JOEL
>SAMBERG.."The Jews of New York City today make up the largest,
>richest, most creative Jewish community in the world. Yet little more
>than a hundred years ago, most of them were desperately poor, living
>in teeming immigrant neighborhoods. How these Jews - through struggle,
>education, and determination - transformed themselves and their city
>is a great American success story. Jewish New Yorkers powered major
>city businesses such as the garment and media industries, reinvented
>Broadway theatre, and helped invent the modern labor movement. They
>also won Nobel Prizes and introduced the United States to such
>delights as pastrami, Egg Creams, and an intimitable form of Jewish
>comedy" - GREATEST JEWISH CITY IN THE WORLD, excerpt from JEWISH NY:
>NOTABLE NEIGHBORHOODS & MEMORABLE MOMENTS BY IRA WOLFMAN.."They say
>the neon lights are bright on Broadway" - THE DRIFTERS (penned by
>sweets Leiber & Stoller).."Come on along and listen to...the Lullaby
>of Broadway...the hip hooray and ballyhoo..the Lullaby of Broadway" -
>AL DUBIN (sweet).."I've seen the lights go out on Broadway, I saw the
>Empire state laid low" - BILLY JOEL (umpteenth sweet, Jewish NYer -
>one of the Top 100 selling artists of all time)