when was the song that Hail, Pennsylvania was written to the tune of first performed?
Hail, Pennsylvania! "Hail, Pennsylvania!" is a song written by Edgar M. Dilley (Class of 1897) as a submission to a University of Pennsylvania alumni committee-sponsored contest to write a song to the tune of "God Save the Tsar!", the national anthem of Imperial Russia, by Alexei Fyodorovich Lvov. Edgar Dilley was awarded $25.
I'm a Little Teapot "I'm a Little Teapot" is an American song describing the heating and pouring of a teapot or a whistling tea kettle, which also has a spout but would be used to pour hot water onto tea bags or a tea ball filled with loose tea leaves. The song was originally written by George Harold Sanders and Clarence Z. Kelley and published in 1939. By 1941, a "Newsweek" article referred to the song as "the next inane novelty song to sweep the country".