"Aw, whaddya wanna do, sing 'Sonny Boy?'"That is Broadway's latest wisecrack to victims who complain unduly, or to friends grown maudlin in their cups. In England, "Sonny Boy," a super-saccharine ballad of child love introduced by Blackface Singer Al Jolson in his latest sound film, is still new and popular. More, it has become a Conservative campaign song.
Last week in London's staid Albert Hall, the mournful tune poured from the throats of 1,000 solid supporters of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin.
The Conservatives sang words of their own, however. "Stanley Boy" the song is to them. As to how the words got changed,...
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