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unusual facts about The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze: And Other Stories



Alfred Lee

Alfred Lee (composer) (1839–1906), composer of many Victorian music hall songs, "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze" and "The Chipmunk Songbook"

Aye, and Gomorrah, and other stories

It is a thematically arranged collection, in the style of James Joyce’s Dubliners (1914), Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio (1919), and Willa Cather’s Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920).

Jules Léotard

He also popularised the one-piece gymwear that now bears his name and was the inspiration for the 1867 song "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze" sung by George Leybourne.

Mike Fright

After suffering through an endless parade of cute kiddie troupers (and inadvertently blowing tubes and bulbs in the control room in the process), the gang steal the show with a rendition of "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze".

Rise the Euphrates

William Saroyan Author of several plays and books including but not limited to: My Name Is Aram, The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze: And Other Stories, and Fresno Stories.

The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze

A version preceding the Fields film was performed by the Our Gang (Little Rascals) kids as the International Silver String Submarine Band in the 1934 short film Mike Fright.

It also appeared (as "Fying Beat") on the MGM album The Beatles with Tony Sheridan & Guests, performed by The Titans.


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