Some claimed that the song was originally used at American revival meetings, while Richard Morton, who wrote the version of the lyric used in Lottie Collins' performances, said its origin was "Eastern". Later editions of the music credited its authorship to various persons, including Alfred Moor-King, Paul Stanley, and Angelo A. In 1892 The New York Times reported that a French version of the song had appeared under the title 'Boom-allez'. Duclerc at Aux Ambassadeurs in 1891, but the following year as a major hit for Polaire at the Folies Bergère. The song was performed in France under the title 'Tha-ma-ra-boum-di-hé', first by Mlle. According to reviews at the time, Collins delivered the suggestive verses with deceptive demureness, before launching into the lusty refrain and her celebrated "kick dance", a kind of cancan in which, according to one reviewer, "she turns, twists, contorts, revolutionizes, and disports her lithe and muscular figure into a hundred different poses, all bizarre".
Within weeks, she included it in a pantomime production of Dick Whittington and performed it to great acclaim in the 1892 adaptation of Edmond Audran's opérette, Miss Helyett.
Asher, she first sang it at the Tivoli Music Hall on The Strand in London in December 1891 to an enthusiastic reception. Collins created a dance routine around it, and, with new words by Richard Morton and a new arrangement by Angelo A. Stephen Cooney, Lottie Collins' husband, heard the song in Tuxedo and purchased from Sayers rights for Collins to perform the song in England. Another American singer, Flora Moore, said that she had sung the song in the early 1880s. However, Sayers later said that he had not written the song, but heard it performed in the 1880s by a black singer, Mama Lou, in a well-known St. Sayers used the song in the troupe's 1891 production Tuxedo, a minstrel farce variety show where "Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay" was sung by Mamie Gilroy. Sayers, the manager of Rich and Harris, a producer of the George Thatcher Minstrels. The song's authorship was disputed for some years.
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