My Pony Boy (Ada Jones, 1909)

1OO YEARS OLD 1909-2009: This great song, written by Bobbie Heath and Charlie O’Donnell, was introduced by Lillian Lorraine (Ziegfeld’s mistress) in the 1909 Anna Held (Ziegfeld’s wife) musical “Miss Innocence“, playing at the New York Theatre. Here, the hit recording from the same year, with Ada Jones and the Peerless Quartet on Victor 16356, 10-inch 78rpm shellac . Way out west, in a nest from the rest, dwelt the bestest little Bronco Boy He could ride, he could glide o’er the prairies like an arrow. Eve