Yuba trivia


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Posted by js on February 02, 2002 at 02:31:12:

appearing on the website (linked below):

"Tuba players should know who Walter O'Keefe was: He was the first person to sing, "When Yuba Plays the Rhumba on the Tuba Down in Cuba!" in the 1933 Broadway musical, The Third Little Show, with Beatrice Lillie and Ernest Truex. O'Keefe did a lot on radio. The last program he did was a personality show on Los Angeles station KHJ in 1962. This series was O'Keefe's most successful."



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