The unusual thing is that Billy Murray seemed to be very good at fake stuttering and recorded one of the most popular stuttering songs of all-time, K-K-K-Katy “the sensational stammering song success” written by Geoffrey O’Hara in 1917.

Click here to listen to the song performed in 1908 by Billy Murray and Ada Jones. The more outrageous the lyric, the better. Today it seems politically incorrect (and in bad taste.) If songs like this were being produced today, protesters would be lining up to have the songs banned.īack then, nothing was thought of it a stutter or lisp would make perfectly acceptable lyrical content. Two speech impediments are better than one.

What if I added something about having a lisp?”Maybe that is the way the smash hit, The Boy Who Stuttered and The Girl Who Lisped by Louis Weslyn came to fruition. I’ve got an idea, I’ll write a song about stuttering, it will be a smash!” But he thought it over, “Hmmm, that’s been done already. In 1907 an imaginative songwriter said to himself, “Hey. Unlike today where some songs contain stuttering verses, 100 years ago, the stuttering was in the title or subtitle. Speech Impediments Were Fair Game For Early Songwritersįorget The Who with “ My Generation” or David Bowie with “ Changes.” Stuttering lyrics were once blatant and over the top.

The who stuttering song