Walking Your Date Back Home.

Paul Harrington, good morning.

Good morning, Pat.

It's an innocent little ditty from 1931 called Walking My Baby Back Home.

And although the telling from the chap's point of view sounds more like floating on air all the way back home, but written, as you say, in Tin Pan Alley on precisely 28th Street between 5th and 6th.

Now, I say this not to pretend that I know Manhattan like the back of my hand, but to demonstrate the whole...

I suppose, industrious nature of not only the native New Yorkers, but the many immigrant cultures that would not only become native New Yorkers, but make up the kaleidoscope that is New York today.

Thanks, Pat.

... at the time

... yeah, exactly.

Uh, you know, and it's funny, and every time when I was researching the song, I, I found just an abundance of enthusiasm when, when Julie would relate, uh, the, the, the stories.

And, uh, there was a time when, when Nancy was working quite a lot in Ireland, and, uh, and she was in Belfast.

And of course, Julie said that Nancy called from Belfast, big deal at the time, telling her how powerful her song was and the effect it was having on audiences.

And this was significant because she said when she performed From a Distance, uh, that there was Catholics and Protestants in tears embracing each other, reacting, uh, uh, to the song.

But it's extraordinary the many ways that this song keeps bouncing around and, and falling into different people's hands, and it opened all kinds of doors for her.

Take it away.