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	Today in History: April 19
		By the end of the day, the colonists were singing "Yankee Doodle" and the American Revolution had begun.
		Yankee Doodle is now their paean, a favorite of favorites, played in their army, esteemed as warlike as the Genadier's March — it is the lover's spell, the nurse's lullaby…it was not a little mortifying to hear them play this tune, when their army marched down to our surrender.
		Fittingly, "Yankee Doodle" is also said to have been played at Yorktown, along with "The World Turned Upside Down," when Lord Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington at the end of the war.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/apr19.html (1353 words)

	Yankee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Today Yankee is most often used to refer to a New Englander (in which case it may denote New England puritan and thrifty values) or someone from one of the Mid-Atlantic states.
		The term "Swamp Yankee" is used in rural Rhode Island and eastern Connecticut to refer to Protestant farmers of moderate means and their descendants (as opposed to upper-class Yankees).
		To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yankee (1164 words)

	Yankee Doodle
		There are numerous conflicting accounts of the origin of "Yankee Doodle", due to the fact that the song has many versions ("Yankee Doodle's" catchy tune has allowed for seemingly endless adaptation and expansion - an 1887 theater piece jokingly referred to the song having 199 verses).
		During Pre-Revolutionary America when the song "Yankee Doodle" first became popular, the word macaroni in the line that reads "stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni" didn't refer to the pasta.
		So by just sticking a feather in his cap and calling himself a "Macaroni", Yankee Doodle was proudly proclaiming himself to be a country bumpkin (an awkward and unsophisticated person), because that was how the English regarded most colonials at that time.
	globalia.net /donlope/fz/songs/Yankee_Doodle.html (436 words)

	yourDictionary.com • Yankee Doodle Dandy
		The joke was that a colonial—a Yankee "dandy"—would stick a feather in his tricorne or coonskin cap and think himself as fashionable as any man à la mode in Paris or Rome.
		Yankee Doodle went to town - Reflects the overwhelmingly rural nature of colonial life, where "going to town" is an event, even if the town is by rights a village.
		Yankee Doodle Dandy - A "dandy" has always been a British term for a man who spends his income on clothes in order to "appear above his station." "Swell" is a synonym, while "toff," in class-conscious British society, refers to a young man of the upper orders who looks and speaks the part.
	www.yourdictionary.com /library/yankee.html (1278 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Yankee Doodle
		Yankee Doodle is now their paean, a favorite of favourites [sic], played in their army, esteemed as warlike as the Genadier's March - it is the lover's spell, the nurse's lullaby.
		Yankee Doodle, as explained earlier, was a New England colonial idiot who rode a pony into town — steeds were only for British officers; colonists had beasts of burden which were employed for everything from carrying loads to ferrying their riders.
		Yankee Doodle is an old song, one that has survived the test of time — roughly five centuries and many major wars, inclusive of the two World Wars.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A2125414 (2246 words)

	Today in History: April 19
		By the end of the day, the colonists were singing "Yankee Doodle" and the American Revolution had begun.
		Yankee Doodle is now their paean, a favorite of favorites, played in their army, esteemed as warlike as the Genadier's March — it is the lover's spell, the nurse's lullaby…it was not a little mortifying to hear them play this tune, when their army marched down to our surrender.
		Fittingly, "Yankee Doodle" is also said to have been played at Yorktown, along with "The World Turned Upside Down," when Lord Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington at the end of the war.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/today/apr19.html (1353 words)

	Straight Dope Staff Report: What's the song "Yankee Doodle" all about? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		"Yankee" of course refers to New Englanders; the origin of "Doodle" is unknown.
		If that's an example of what the British sang during the occupation of Boston in 1768, I'm not surprised to learn that the tune alone, without the words, would have been offensive to the colonists, who were proud of their brave showing in Canada.
		Totally separate from all this is the song "Yankee Doodle Dandy" by George M. Cohan (sung and danced wonderfully by Jimmy Cagney in the movie of the same name).
	www.straightdope.com /mailbag/myankeedoodle.html (1210 words)

	Cleveland Seniors \| Yankee Doodle \| Senior
		The original Yankee Doodle song was written by an Englishman as a mockery of the Americans.
		So by just sticking a feather in his cap and calling himself a "Macaroni" (a "dandy"), Yankee Doodle was proudly proclaiming himself to be a country bumpkin, because that was how the English regarded most colonials at that time.
		Yankee Doodle was the very first song recorded on a record.
	www.clevelandseniors.com /family/yankeed.htm (204 words)

	Yankee Doodle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Lemay states that there were military and non-military versions of Yankee Doodle, but the military versions were basically anti-American, ridiculing the non-uniformed appearance, the lack of training, and the poor quality of the equipment of colonial American soldiers, as seen through educated British eyes.
		So entrenched was this song as one of derision that the fife and drum corps of the British reinforcements played it while marching into battle at Lexington, MA on April 19, 1775.
		With the American Revolution, Yankee Doodle became a quintessential American song, one that said that Americans were proud of being who they were.
	www.cslib.org /yankeedoodle.htm (438 words)

	"Yankee Doodle" Revisited
		The "original" words to Yankee Doodle are published in the October Courier.
		Yankee Doodle was originally sung by the British to mock the American militia, and dates back to the 1760s but may date from the 1740s or 1750s.
		As to the origin of the name Yankee Doodle, Thomas Anburey is just one of many who have attempted to attribute the name not only to the Cherokee but also the Basque, Dutch, English, Hessian, Hungarian, and Irish.
	www.nwta.com /couriers/3-97/doodle.html (490 words)

	Yankee Doodle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Century Dictionary of Names, while considering the origin uncertain, says that according to a common statement, Yankees is a variation of "Yenkees" or "Yengees" or "Yaunghees," a name said to have been given by Massachusetts Indians to the English colonists, being, it is supposed, an Indian corruption of the word English.
		The word "Doodle" is defined in the old English dictionaries to be trifling, or simple fellow, the term was applied to Cromwell, so it is claimed, in that sense; and a macaroni was a knot on which the feather was fastened.
		But the original "Yankee Doodle" words which became the song of the Revolution, are said to have been written by a Connecticut gentleman, and it seems that fate did him a kindness by concealing his name.
	www.mi5th.org /Songs/YankDood.htm (519 words)

	Yankee Doodle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Early Dutch settlers in New Amsterdam (renamed New York by the British in 1664) used the term in a rather impolite way to refer to the English-speaking colonists, who the Dutch though were boorish and uncultured.
		The following verse was included under the published title "Yankee Doodle; or, (as now christened by the Saints of New England) “The Lexington March”.
		Fittingly and proudly, "Yankee Doodle" was played by the Continental army at Yorktown, when Lord Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington at the end of the war.
	fp.enter.net /~kirschbaum/yankeedoodle.htm (701 words)

	Yankee Doodle: A New England Dandy in King George's Court: www.jolique.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A precocious child, I knew it was nonsensical for Yankee Doodle to call his hat ‘Macaroni’, as many of my classmates professed he had done.
		The famous pasta line of Yankee Doodle pokes fun at unsophisticated New Englanders and their attempts to be stylish.
		The entire Yankee Doodle lyric, one of America's most beloved patriotic songs, is a joke at the expense of the Colonists.
	www.jolique.com /social_status/yankee_doodle.htm (412 words)

	Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (Warner Brothers, 1942), directed by Michael Curtiz, is an autobiographical musical of George M. Cohan (1878-1942), a legendary Broadway showman, composer, actor and dancer, as played by James Cagney in what's been reported as his personal favorite of all movie roles, and it's easy to see why.
		YANKEE DOODLE DANDY happens to be the first real successful Warner Brothers musical since the Busby Berkeley backstagers of the early to mid 1930s, and the one that started the trend of musical bio-pics.
		However, as a movie, YANKEE DOODLE DANCY is a fine musical that blends nostalgia of the past (early twentieth century, World War I) with patriotism of the 1940s.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0035575 (1145 words)

	TRANSCONTINENTAL FLIGHTS OF THE YANKEE DOODLE
		The Lockheed Vega Yankee Doodle made two record-setting, non-stop transcontinental flights across the United States of America, in 1928, while being flown by Arthur C. Goebel, the winning pilot of the 1927 Dole Air Race to Hawaii.
		The Yankee Doodle at Mines Field, on September 13, at 3:20 p.m., after it had set an east-to-west non-stop transcontinental speed record across the United States of America, while being flown by Arther C. Goebel.
		The Yankee Doodle later broke the east-to-west non-stop transcontinental speed record, across the United States of America, in October 1928, while being flown by Captain Charles B.D. Collyer, from New York to Mines Field, in 24 hours and 51 minutes.
	roynagl.topcities.com /yankeedoodle.htm (419 words)

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		“The Doodle,” as its friends know it, consists of a twelve-stool counter in a skinny cafe that is truly a hole in the wall.
		We recommend the Dandy Doodle Double-Double Cheeseburger, served on a hard roll with bacon, onions, lettuce and tomato; and years ago when we first dined at the Doodle, we were seduced by a small enthusiastic sign behind the counter that advertises the Yankee Doodle Pig in a Blanket.
		The smell of the grill perfumes the air, and diners are serenaded by a dishwasher that periodically belches forth a rude, rumbling clamor down at the far end of the counter.
	www.roadfood.com /Reviews/Writeup.aspx?ReviewID=319&RefID=319 (352 words)

	Yankee Doodle
		Yankee Doodle is an overwriting, memory resident, file infecting virus.
		As a side note, some variants of the Yankee Doodle virus seek out and modify Ping Pong viruses, changing them so that they self- destruct after 100 infections.
		The Yankee Doodle virus was isolated by Alexander Holy of the North Atlantic Project in Vienna, Austria, on September 30, 1989.
	vil.nai.com /vil/content/v_1418.htm (686 words)

	Yankee Doodle Dandies: Yankee Books \| BaseballLibrary.com
		Allen, who has covered the Yankees from Day One of the Steinbrenner era, takes us from that moment through all the twists and turns of the stormy and successful years.
		There is a lot of material on the current championship Yankees, the craziness of the Bronx Zoo days, the fiasco of Howard Spira/Dave Winfield, the wife (and family) swapping of Fritz Peterson/Mike Kekich in the early 70s.
		Still in the New York Yankees' mood, there is Joe Torre's Ground Rules for Winners by Joe Torre with Henry Dreher (Hyperion, $23.95, 282 pages).
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/submit/Frommer_Harvey25.stm (593 words)

	Ben's Guide (3-5): Songs and Oaths -- Yankee Doodle
		The origins of the words and music of the Yankee Doodle are not known exactly due to the fact that the song has many versions.
		During Pre-Revolutionary America when the song "Yankee Doodle" first became popular, the word macaroni in the line that reads "stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni" didn't refer to the pasta.
		So by just sticking a feather in his cap and calling himself a "Macaroni", Yankee Doodle was proudly proclaiming himself to be a country bumpkin (an awkward and unsophisticated person), because that was how the English regarded most colonials at that time.
	bensguide.gpo.gov /3-5/symbols/yankee.html (330 words)

	Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
		Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) is one of Hollywood's greatest, grandest and slickest musicals.
		Yankee Doodle Dandy is a lively, sensational and dynamic film with exciting song and dance numbers and a tour de force performance by the high-pitched and energized James Cagney.
		As a side piece of history, when Yankee Doodle Dandy was first released for its world premiere on Memorial Day, 1942 on Broadway, further special engagements were also scheduled around Independence Day (Cohan's alleged birthdate).
	www.filmsite.org /yank.html (2572 words)

	The Yankee Doodle Coffee Shop's History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		opened a small ten-stool coffee shop that he named the "Yankee Doodle," after the song his father sang to him as a little boy.
		In 1953, two stools were added and some other changes were made to make The Doodle more efficient to operate.
		In 1950, burgers cost 20 cents and a complete breakfast of two eggs, juice, toast and coffee was offered at 50 cents.
	www.thedoodle.com /history.htm (190 words)

	First World War.com - Vintage Audio - The Yankee Doodle Boy
		Based on the traditional U.S. tune Yankee Doodle Dandy, George M. Cohan penned The Yankee Doodle Boy some thirteen years before America's entry into World War I against the Central Powers, when it formed part of his highly successful Broadway musical Little Johnny Jones.
		The song (also known as I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy) comprised a straightforward patriotic celebration of America.
		By 1918 the percentage of women to men working in Britain had risen to 37% from 24% at the start of the war.
	www.firstworldwar.com /audio/yankeedoodleboy.htm (201 words)

	Yankee Doodle
		The original version of Yankee Doodle was supposedly written by the British as a way of mocking the American militia.
		This epithet of yankee was bestowed upon the inhabitants of New England by the Virginians, for not assisting them in a war with the Cherokees, and they have always been held in derision by it.
		After our rapid successes, we held the Yankees in great contempt; but it was not a little mortifying to hear them play this tune, when their army marched down to our surrender [at Saratoga]".
	www.nwta.com /couriers/10-96/yankeed.html (343 words)

	Yankee Doodle.Xpeh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Yankee Doodle.Xpeh is a memory resident, file infecting virus.
		Once the Yankee Doodle.Xpeh virus is memory resident, it infects.COM and.EXE files, as they are executed or opened.
		Systems infected with the Yankee Doodle.Xpeh virus may experience frequent system hangs when attempting to execute files.
	vil.nai.com /vil/content/v_1412.htm (818 words)

	Yankee Doodle Dandies
		IN 1756 A call went out for volunteers to form a Yankee brigade which would be attached to British forces fighting the troublesome French and Indians in the on-going wilderness war.
		From the villages and farms of Connecticut, the eager young recruits straggled in to the advertised place of assembly, the Norwalk home of the group's commanding officer, Colonel Thomas Fitch, son of Connecticut Governor Thomas Fitch.
		While he might overstate the case a bit, historian W. Storrs Lee has also seen "Yankee Doodle" as a peculiarly representative Connecticut contribution to the field of culture and the arts.
	www.curbstone.org /index.cfm?webpage=85 (509 words)

	Yankee Doodle
		Tradition has it that Yankee Doodle had its origins in the French and Indian War when New England troops joined Braddock's forces at Niagara.
		In contrast to the spit and polish of the British army, the colonials were a motley crew, some wearing buckskins and furs.
		When Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown it is said while the British played The World Turned Upside Down, the Americans played Yankee Doodle.
	www.contemplator.com /america/ydoodle.html (178 words)

	Yankee Doodle
		Notes: There is a reference to "Yankee Doodle" in a comic opera of 1767 ("The Disappointment, or The Force of Credulity" by Andrew Barton), but given the references in the common version to the continental army and "Captain Washington," the piece as commonly sung can hardly predate the Revolutionary War.
		This portion of the Little House books is fictional (Laura did not live in Wisconsin at the age described), and so we cannot date the song, but it is presumably traditional.
		This "Yankee Doodle" is obviously not to be confused with the 1812 song "The Constitution and the Guerriere," sometimes titled "Yankee Doodle Dandy-O." - RBW
	www.csufresno.edu /folklore/ballads/LxA521.html (465 words)

	Lyrics and Music
		Back in Pre-Revolutionary America when the song "Yankee Doodle" was first popular, the singer was not referring to the pasta "macaroni" in the line that reads "stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni".
		So by just sticking a feather in his cap and calling himself a "Macaroni" (a "dandy"), Yankee Doodle was proudly proclaiming himself to be a country bumpkin, because that was how the English regarded most colonials at that time.
		But times have long since changed, and it is important to reflect on the fact that despite the turbulent early relationship between England and the American colonists, our two countries are strongly united.
	www.niehs.nih.gov /kids/lyrics/yankee.htm (379 words)

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