Sadie Salome, Go Home!
Cover of sheet music for “Sadie Salome, Go Home.” Fanny Brice (1891–1951), who famously performed in thus number, was born Fania Borach in New York City to immigrants from Hungary and Alsace respectively. Getting her break in entertainment through the Eastern Burlesque Circuit (1907–1910), Fania anglicized her name to Fanny Brice. She was intermittently cast in the Ziegfield Follies for the next thirteen years, with her Yiddish-accented humor, performing Irving Berlin and Edgar Leslie’s “Sadie Salome, Go Home” for the 1910 Ziegfield Follies. Brice became the first female lead in a talkie, My Man (1928), based on her popular performances of this song in the 1921 Ziegfield Follies, for which she was awarded a posthumous Grammy Award.
Credits
Edgar Leslie and Irving Berlin, Sadie Salome, Go Home! (Ted Snyder Co., New York, 1909). Library of Congress, Music Division. Notated Music. https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.100007293/.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 7.
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