Hello! Ma Baby

At the time, telephones were relatively novel, present in fewer than 10% of U.S. households, and this was the first well-known song to refer to the device.

The short piano piece The Little Nigar (Le petit nègre) by Claude Debussy from 1909 features a melody very similar to "Hello!

The 1987 American space opera comedy film Spaceballs featured an uncredited recording (from One Froggy Evening) of part of the song sung by a xenomorph.

In the 2018 video game Red Dead Redemption 2, the song is performed by the character Robin Koninsky at the Théâtre Râleur in the fictional city of Saint Denis.

[7] The sheet music was published by T. B. Harms & Co., which was acquired by Warner Bros. before the stock market crash of 1929 (during the advent of the "Talkies" era of cinema).