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Sailin' Away On The Henry Clay
This song appeared in later versions of Home Again. Grace Kahn, the wife of composer Gus, mentions it in Charlotte Chandler's book Hello, I Must Be Going when recalling her days as a song plugger for Chicago-based music publisher Jerome H. Remick; "Now,
at this point Groucho was doing an act in Grand Rapids, something in
vaudeville, so my boss sent me to Grand Rapids to get Groucho to sing a
song when he arrived in Chicago. Groucho liked the song, and when he
got to Chicago he sang it." Chandler asks if Grace remembers the song she were plugging for Groucho, to which Grace replies. "Yes, I certainly do. Sailin' Away on the Henry Clay,
that was the name of the song. They'd travel around the country for
about a year in those days, and Groucho kept the song on for all that
time."
As Street Cinderella opened in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on 28 September 1918 and featured songs by Gus Kahn and Egbert van Alstyne, Sailin' Away on the Henry Clay may have been salvaged from that flop when Home Again was revived .
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