Where Did You Get That Hat?

1888 song by Joseph J. Sullivan

"Where Did You Get That Hat?"

Song by Joseph J. Sullivan
Released	1888 (1888)
Genre	Comic, vaudeville song
Songwriter(s)	Joseph J. Sullivan

"Where Did You Get That Hat?" is a comic song which was composed and first performed by Joseph J. Sullivan at Miner's Eighth Avenue Theatre in 1888. It was a great success and has since been performed by many others including J. C. Heffron, Stanley Holloway, Al Simmons and Dave Barnes.^[1]^[2] The song is now also a very popular piece performed for musical theatre exams (grades 4 to 8) and music hall concerts.

Bing Crosby included the song in a medley on his album 101 Gang Songs (1961).

A broadside ballad^[3] in the Bodleian library indicates that this song was written by James Ralmaz (rather than Joseph Sullivan) and performed by J. C. Heffron.

References

^ Theodore Raph (1986), "Where Did You Get That Hat", The American song treasury, p. 218, ISBN 978-0-486-25222-3
^ Jack Burton, Larry Freeman (1962), The blue book of Tin Pan Alley, vol. 1, Century House, p. 13
^ James Ralmaz, Johnson Ballads 1373, Francis Day and Hunter, 195 Oxford Street, London