Professor Elam

Weekend Sept  26 2020

In ACCT 5308 we are reading about frauds and scandals at

Ernst and Young, three n less

accused fraud at Nikola via Hindenburg Research

Rio Tinto CEO resigns over exploding historic site

J P Morgan to pay $1 billion fine

Frauds and excessive hype occur at market tops which is precisely where we are now.  And this mood recurs over different time periods, times change but unremembered social mood does not.

consider the song, Let's Misbehave, take a guess when it was written and recorded.

"Let's Misbehave" is a song written by Cole Porter in 1927, originally intended for the female lead of his first major production, Paris. It was discarded before the Broadway opening in favor of "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love". However, the star of the Broadway production, Irene Bordoni, performed it for a phonograph recording which was labelled as being from the production of Paris.

The song with partial lyrics was a notable 1928 hit for Irving Aaronson and his Commanders. The song was recorded earlier with partial lyrics for the Brunswick label by Scrappy Lambert and Billy Hillpot with Ben Bernie's orchestra in December 1927, and by Tom Stacks with Harry Reser's band "The Bluebirds" in January 1928. Banjo Buddy's (a.k.a. Harold Sandelman) recording in April 1928 contained full lyrics and verse. ^[1] It was included perhaps most infamously in the 1962 revival of Anything Goes. It was also added into the 1991 version of Porter's You Never Know (musical).

contrast these lyrics near top of the market in  the Roaring 20s with the far more constrained Victorian era of the  15890s

We're all alone
No chaperon
Can get our number
The world's in slumber
Let's misbehave!

There's something wild
About you, child
That's so contagious
Let's be outrageous
Let's misbehave!

When Adam won Eve's hand
He wouldn't stand
For teasin'
He didn't care about
Those apples out of season!

They say the Spring
Means just one thing
To little lovebirds;
We're not above birds
Let's misbehave!

Let's misbehave!
Let's misbehave!