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Hail, hail, the gang's all here.

Posted by R. Berg on June 23, 2001

In Reply to: Hail, hail, the gang's all here. posted by Mark on June 23, 2001

: I'm just looking for any background info on this phrase. I think it's actually a short song.

You've come to the right place. From Eric Partridge, Dictionary of Catch Phrases: American and British, from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day: "Orig. and popularized by a 1917 song so titled, words by Estrom, music by Morse, sung by Sullivan, as one learns from Edward B. Marks, 'They All Sang,' 1934 . . . Ed. McBain uses it as . . . title for one of his detective novels."

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