The Yacht Club Boys brought great energy to their performances, with brash songs like "You're Broke, You Dope" and "My, How the Country's Changed." Perhaps their most familiar screen appearances are in Al Jolson's The Singing Kid (1936), in which the four outspoken comics persistently try to keep Jolson from singing outdated "mammy songs;" Knight, Arthur "Disintegrating the musical: Black performance and American musical film," Duke University Press, 2002, page 74. . Retrieved 31 Jan 2014 and the collegiate musical Pigskin Parade (1936), in which they perform their specialties at college rallies.
