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"Second Hand Rose," Fanny Brice Ziegfeld Follies 1921 Broadway Hit

Comic Broadway hit of 1921, originally performed by Fanny Brice! #broadwaymusicals #broadway #1920smusic #fannybrice Fanny Brice, born Fania Borach in 1891 in Manhattan, New York to a Jewish Hungarian mother and Alsatian father. She was an expert singer-comidienne, with much of her humor based on her Jewish-American identity. The story goes that in 1909, she talked her way into a spot in a burlesque show by saying she had a specialty number she could perform. She didn't have one, so she went to Irving Berlin (not yet famous) for a song, and he gave her "Sadie Salome, Go Home!" about a Jewish girl who finds fame onstage as Salome doing the Dance of the Seven Veils, much to the consternation of her sweetheart Mose. He told her to do it with a Yiddish accent, and Fanny performed the song with Yiddish accent and a mock Dance of the Seven Veils and became an overnight success. Soon Florenz Ziegfeld signed her to appear on Broadway in the Ziegfeld Follies, and she went on to appear in several annual editions of the Follies as a comidienne. "Second Hand Rose" was written by Grant Clarke and James F. Hanley especially for Fanny Brice to perform in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1921. The song was a great hit for Fanny, with its lyric telling the comic tale of woe of a woman whose father owns a secondhand shop--so she never gets anything new! The lyric subtly sets the scene of early 20th century immigrant life by mentioning the apartment where the family lives, the secondhand piano as a sign of culture in the parlor, the working-class Jake the plumber as the heroine's beloved, life on 2nd avenue (home of the Yiddish theatre district, Jewish businesses, and tenements) and the indignity of strolling through the Ritz and being "called out" for wearing a secondhand fur coat! When Fanny recorded the song, she made it more distinctly Jewish in character by singing not "Jake the plumber" but "Jakey Cohen," giving her suitor a surname many would have recognized as Jewish. In addition for her talents for dialect comedy, Brice excelled at skewering upper middle class pretensions, with parody numbers like "Becky is Back at the Ballet" and "Quainty, Dainty Me." In the Follies, she also created the character of "Baby Snooks," a precocious toddler perpetually causing trouble. Fanny continued to play Baby Snooks on radio through the 1930s and 1940s. She is also remembered for introducing the song "My Man" to American audiences in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1921 (the song originated in France as "Mon Homme," and Ziegfeld bought the rights to the song and had it translated for Fanny to sing in The Follies). She performed "My Man" in utter seriousness, proving herself to be as adept in a dramatic, heartbreaking number as a comic one. Today, the public at large is perhaps most familiar with Fanny Brice through the biographical musical Funny Girl. Barbra Streisand originated the role of Fanny Brice in the original Broadway production in 1964 and in the 1968 film, where a short segment of "Second Hand Rose" is featured. Barbra also performed "Secondhand Rose" in her 1965 television special My Name Is Barbra, and it was released as a single for the tie-in studio album My Name Is Barbra, Two.... I decided not to try to replicate Fanny or Barbra's performance, but I hope it's still nice hearing it my way! Lyric: Father has a business, strictly second hand. Ev'rything from toothpicks, to a baby grand. Stuff in our apartment comes from Father's store, Even things I'm wearing, someone wore before. It's no wonder that I feel abused. I never have a thing that ain't been used. I'm wearing second hand hats, second hand clothes, That's why they call me second hand Rose. Even our piano in the parlor, Father bought for ten cents on the dollar. Second hand pearls, I'm wearing second hand curls, I never got a single thing that's new. Even Jake the plumber, he's the man I adore, Had the nerve to tell me he's been married before. Everyone knows that I'm just second hand Rose, From Second Avenue. Each one in the family, kicks the whole day long. Ev'ryone's disgusted, ev'rything is wrong. Second handed doggie, second handed cat, Second handed welcome, second handed mat. I think father's head is made of wood, He brings home lots of things that ain't no good. I'm wearing second hand shoes, second hand hose, All the girls hand me their second hand beaux. Even my pajamas when I don 'em, Have somebody else's 'nitials on 'em. Second hand rings, I'm sick of second hand things, I never got what other girlies do. Once while strolling through the Ritz a girl got my goat, She nudged her friend and said, "Oh look, there's my old fur coat!" Everyone knows that I'm just second hand Rose, From Second Avenue.