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Good morning Raggedy and thanks for the birthday list. Slaughter on 10th Avenue from Words and Music is trotted out from my video collection on a regular basis. Richard Rogers in my opinion was a genius. It's a wonderful piece of music thoroughly enjoyed by me since I was a teeny bopper many decades ago.

Hmmmm. Not a lot going on this morning. Might as well post an e-mail I got this morning. Some observations that you may think of putting in the back of your mind or the front if you're so inclined.

1. The best way to get even is to forget...
2. Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death...
3. God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts...
4. Some folks wear their halos much too tight...
5. Some marriages are made in heaven, but they
ALL have to be maintained on earth...
6. Unless you can create the WHOLE universe in 5
days, then perhaps giving "advice" to God, isn't
such a good idea!
7. Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks up...
8. Standing in the middle of the road is dangerous. You
will get knocked down by the traffic from both ways.
9. Words are windows to the heart.
10. A skeptic is a person who when he sees the
hand-writing on the wall, claims it's a forgery.
11. It isn't difficult to make a mountain out of a
molehill - just add a little dirt.
12. A successful marriage isn't finding the right
person - it's being the right person.
13. The mighty oak tree was once a little nut that
held its ground.
14. Too many people offer God prayers, with claw
marks all over them.
15. The tongue must be heavy indeed, because so
few people can hold it.
16. To forgive is to set the prisoner free, and then
discover the prisoner was you.
17. You have to wonder about humans, they think God
is dead and Elvis is alive!
18. It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and
again. Just be sure to flush when you are done.
19. You'll notice that a turtle only makes progress
when it sticks out its neck...
20. If the grass is greener on the other side of the
fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.
21. The shortest distance between a problem and
a solution is the distance between your knees and
the floor. The one who kneels to the Lord can
stand up to anything.

Tap-Tap-Tap. Nope folks, that is not Gene Kelly, it is Letty testing the mike.<smile>

dj, I really loved the lyrics of the song that you played, especially "...blossoms for a pillow..." . Thanks Canada.

Bob, once again, thanks for the great bios on Gene and Barbara. They really fill in a lot of the gaps, and who doesn't know "Singing in the Rain".

Raggedy, it's always a delight to see you and your daily celeb updates. There are several with which I am familiar, especially Henley and Masters.

Back later to check out Bob's funnies.

Hey Bob. What? Seems a little lonesome in here. So what I stand alone. Do you think it might be your deodorant? Thanks--just what I need, a critic. Permit me to make an observation. Go ahead. How many fish do you catch if you don't bait the hook? I see what you mean. What's my bait? Music might work. You know, Raggedy's remark started my brain to thinking of a song. I didn't think anything would start it. Wiseguy. Ok, I'll bite. What song? Remember Richard Roger's score to Victory at Sea? Yeah. Well one of the sections called Under the Southern Cross morphed into a song called No Other Love. That's right Perry Como sang it and did a really good job. Sounds good. Give it to them. Done.

P
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C
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No Other Love

No other love have I
Only my love for you
Only the dream we knew
No other love

Watching the night go by
Wishing you could be
Watching the night with me
Into the night I cry
Hurry home, come home to me, set me free
Free from doubt and free from longing

Into your arms I'll fly
Locked in your arms I'll stay
Waiting to hear you say
No other love have I
No other love

(Into the night I cry)
Hurry home, come home to me
Set me free
Free from doubt and free from longing

Into your arms I'll fly
Locked in your arms I'll stay
Waiting to hear you say
No other love have I
No other love
(No other love)
No other love

Well, I like that, listeners. Bob claims to be all alone and letty was here doing an imitation of Gene Kelly, umbrella and all.

I loved your definition of skeptic, Bob.

That was interesting about Perry Como, and I like that song, No Other Love as well.

It is sad, folks, to think that River Phoenix is dead and his brother Joaquin in rehab.

Ah, well. Let's take a look at Edgar Lee Masters for a moment, from Spoon River Anthology:


The Hill
Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom and Charley,
The weak of will, the strong of arm, the clown, the boozer, the fighter?
All, all are sleeping on the hill.

One passed in a fever,
One was burned in a mine,
One was killed in a brawl,
One died in a jail,
One fell from a bridge toiling for children and wife-
All, all are sleeping, sleeping, sleeping on the hill.

Where are Ella, Kate, Mag, Lizzie and Edith,
The tender heart, the simple soul, the loud, the proud, the happy one?--
All, all are sleeping on the hill.

One died in shameful child-birth,
One of a thwarted love,
One at the hands of a brute in a brothel,
One of a broken pride, in the search for heart's desire;
One after life in far-away London and Paris
Was brought to her little space by Ella and Kate and Mag--
All, all are sleeping, sleeping, sleeping on the hill.

Where are Uncle Isaac and Aunt Emily,
And old Towny Kincaid and Sevigne Houghton,
And Major Walker who had talked With venerable men of the revolution?--
All, all are sleeping on the hill.

They brought them dead sons from the war,
And daughters whom life had crushed,
And their children fatherless, crying--
All, all are sleeping, sleeping, sleeping on the hill.
Where is Old Fiddler Jones
Who played with life all his ninety years,
Braving the sleet with bared breast,
Drinking, rioting, thinking neither of wife nor kin,
Nor gold, nor love, nor heaven?
Lo! he babbles of the fish-frys of long ago,
Of the horse-races of long ago at Clary's Grove,
Of what Abe Lincoln said
One time at Springfield.

In his anthology, Master's let's the dead speak. His approach is so like Thornton Wilder and Thomas Gray, agreed?

Funny you mentioned "No Other Love" Bob. Although I had worn the grooves out on Perry's recording of "No Other Love" when it was popular, I hadn't realized it was from Victory at Sea until I heard it yesterday while I was recording a Richard Rodgers Special from VHS to DVD . I was also surprised to learn that Rodgers put "No Other Love" into the first musical comedy he and Hammerstein collaborated on - Me and Juliet.

My apologies O Great One. Your post was not there when I started my compilation. Mea culpa! Mea culpa! I'll be good (fat chance). Do not curse me and send me to the nether regions. (thought I was already there).

Raggedy, you have a lot of neat stuff, and most of what I have is jazz.

er, Bob, I think that should be nether world. I learned that expression the hard way from dlowan. :wink:

Hi Raggedy. No Other Love was a great song for Perry Como to sing. His effortless delivery really enhanced the flow of this beautiful song. The only other singer I can think of who rivaled his ease is Dean Martin. Como's recording to me is still the best.

News you can lose.

Belgian women's team lose 50-1

Mon Aug 22, 9:06 AM ET

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian women's soccer team SK Berlaar had to stomach a 50-1 defeat against rival KV Mechelen on Saturday because their goalkeeper had opted to attend a music concert instead, a local newspaper said.


"Our keeper went to Pukkel Pop. That's why," substitute goalkeeper Charlotte Jacobs told Het Laatste Nieuws daily on Monday.

KV Mechelen scored their first goal after only four seconds.

"At half-time the score was 27-0. But after half-time we were able to recover. We had to stomach only 23 goals and we scored once ourselves, right at the end. They allowed us to score. That was sweet of them," Jacobs added.

Bob, I know about as much about soccer as I know about nuclear physics, but I do think it coincidental that I was reading a bit of news at about the same time that you came on the air.

Maradona owns up to controversial ``Hand of God'' goal against England in 1986 World Cup

By VICENTE PANETTA, Associated Press Writer
August 23, 2005
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Diego Maradona acknowledged that he struck the ball with his hand in the famous ``Hand of God'' goal against England in the 1986 World Cup quarterfinals.

Speaking on his local television talk show Monday night, Maradona called one of soccer's most controversial goals ``something that just came out of me. It was a bit of mischief.''

Maradona appeared to punch the ball into the net, and officials allowed the goal to stand despite protests by the English team. Argentina went on to win the 1986 quarterfinal match 2-1 and then win the World Cup.

My, word, folks. Often the "same time" syndrome is a bit eerie, especially since Bob informed us that Gene Kelly wanted to be an athlete.

Let's go Letty:

C'mon babe
Why don't we paint the town?
And all that jazz

I'm gonna rouge my knees
And roll my stockings down
And all that jazz

Start the car
I know a whoopee spot
Where the gin is cold
But the piano's hot

It's just a noisy hall
Where there's a nightly brawl
And all that jazz!

Slick your hair
And wear your buckle shoes
And all that jazz

I hear that father dip
Is gonna blow the blues
and all that jazz

Hold on, hon
We're gonna bunny hug
I bought some aspirin
Down at united drug

In case you shake apart
And want a brand new start
To do that-

Jazz.

Skidoo

And all that jazz

Hot-cha

Whoopee

And all that jazz

Ha! ha! ha!

Find a flask
We're playing fast and loose

And all that jazz

Right up here
Is where I store the juice

All.
And all that jazz

Come on, babe
We're gonna brush the sky
I betcha lucky lindy
Never flew so high

'cause in the stratosphere
How could he lend an ear
To all that jazz?

Oh, you're gonna see your sheba
Shimmy shake

And all that jazz
.
Oh, she's gonna shimmy till her garters
break

And all that jazz

Show her where to park her girdle
Oh, her mother's blood'd curdle
If she'd hear
Her baby's queer
For all that jazz!

ok, gal. I'll have to play the ones that I sang just to see if I can remember them:

Come on and hear,
Come on and hear,
Alexander's rag time band

Come on and hear,
Come on and hear,
It's the best band in the land.

He can play the bugle call like you never heard before.
So natural that you want to go to war.

It am the bestest band what am,
My little honey lamb.

Come on and hear,
Come on and hear,
Let me take you by the hand.
Up to the man
Up to the man
Who's the leader of the band.
And if you want to hear that Swanee River
Played in Ragtime.

Come on and hear,
Come on and hear,

Alexander's rag time......Band!

Wow, that thing swings, listeners.

Chicago Soundtrack Lyrics

Anastacia - Love Is a Crime Lyrics


Oooh Yeah
Chicago

If love is a crime baby
I'd do my time
Whether it's wrong or right
You can sentence me to life
If love is a crime baby
I'd do my time
Whether it's wrong or right
You can sentence me
Sentence me to life

Some might say I'm guilty of love in the first degree
If the jury wants to lock me up and throw away the key
There's no greater punishment than what I face inside
Won't tamper with the evidence cause there's nothing to hide

He lives inside my heart
I'm in the middle too
You never had a clue
Unless you felt it too

If love is a crime baby
I'd do my time
Whether it's wrong or right
You can sentence me to life
If love is a crime baby
I'd do my time
Whether it's wrong or right
You can sentence me
Sentence me to life

Swear tell the truth, just let me plead my case
The thief who stole my heart from me I couldn't let escape
He's my only alibi, but I won't drop a dime
So how can I give up to you, my partner in crime

He lives inside my heart
I'm in the middle too
You never had a clue
Unless you felt it too

If love is a crime baby
I'd do my time
Whether it's wrong or right
You can sentence me to life
If love is a crime baby
I'd do my time
Whether it's wrong or right
You can sentence me
Sentence me to life

You can take away my freedom
But you can't take my love from me
I won't die a lonely prisoner
'Cause my heart will set me free
Oooh ooh yeah
Whooh!
Chicago

I said
If love is a crime baby
I'd do my time
Whether it's wrong or right
You can sentence me to life
If love is a crime baby
I'd do my time
Whether it's wrong or right
You can sentence me
Sentence me to life

Ah come on
I said
If love is a crime baby
I'd do my time
Whether it's wrong or right
You can sentence me to life
If love is a crime baby
I'd do my time
Whether it's wrong or right
You can sentence me
Sentence me to life

I said love is a crime

well for once, folks. The women outnumber the men. Chicago transit times. Thanks, Boston

I sent my sister a virtual birthday card and she reminded me of some of the stuff she used to sing when we were kids, and had a spot on the local radio station. She wrote down for me what I was supposed to announce when it was her turn to sing.

And now Ann will sing a cute little pimp tune .....her j's looked like p's to me, and I couldn't understand why everyone was aghast.

Anyway the song was:

I fell in love with you,
The first time I looked into
Them there eyes
You've got a certain little
Cute way of flirtin' with
Them there eyes.

They make me feel happy,
They make me blue
No foolin'; I'm fallin'
Fallin' in a big way for cute little you.

My heart is jumpin',
You sure started somethin'
With them there eyes,
You'd better watch them if you're wise.

They sparkle;
They bubble;
They gonna get you in a whole lot of trouble.

You're overworkin' them
There's danger workin' in

Them...there....eyes

No encore, listeners?

Perhaps a little history will perk things up:

Today in History - Aug. 23


Today is Tuesday, Aug. 23, the 235th day of 2005. There are 130 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On Aug. 23, 1927, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston for the murders of two men during a 1920 robbery. (Sacco and Vanzetti were vindicated in 1977 by Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis.)

On this date:

In 1754, France's King Louis XVI was born at Versailles.

In 1914, Japan declared war against Germany in World War I.

In 1926, silent film star Rudolph Valentino died in New York at age 31.

In 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression treaty.

In 1944, Romanian prime minister Ion Antonescu was dismissed by King Michael, paving the way for Romania to abandon the Axis in favor of the Allies.

In 1960, Broadway librettist Oscar Hammerstein II died in Doylestown, Pa.

In 1972, the Republican national convention, meeting in Miami Beach, Fla., nominated President Nixon and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew for a second term.

In 1979, Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defected while the Bolshoi Ballet was on tour in New York.

In 1982, Lebanon's parliament elected Christian militia leader Bashir Gemayel president. (However, Gemayel was assassinated some three weeks later.)

In 1989, in a case that inflamed racial tensions in New York City, Yusuf Hawkins, a 16-year-old black youth, was shot dead after he and his friends were confronted by white youths in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn.

Ten years ago: During a memorial service at Fort Myer, Va., President Clinton eulogized three U.S. diplomats killed in a road accident near Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and vowed to carry on the struggle for peace in the Balkans. Life magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt died on Martha's Vineyard at age 96.

Five years ago: A Gulf Air Airbus crashed into the Persian Gulf near Bahrain, killing all 143 people aboard. Negotiators for Verizon and more than 35,000 telephone workers reached tentative agreement on a new contract, ending 18-day strike. An estimated 51 million viewers tuned in for the finale of CBS' reality series ``Survivor,'' in which contestant Richard Hatch won the $1 million prize.

One year ago: President Bush criticized a commercial that had accused Democrat John Kerry of inflating his own Vietnam War record, more than a week after the ad stopped running, and said broadcast attacks by outside groups had no place in the race for the White House. In Athens, Jeremy Wariner became the sixth consecutive American to win the Olympic title in the 400 meters, leading a U.S. sweep of the medals. The U.S. softball team won its third straight gold medal with a 5-1 victory over Australia.

I was particularly interested in Valentino's mention, because I discovered from Panzade that the song "Long Black Veil" was inspired by the lady who kept a vigil at his grave site.

I also learned something new about the man and the legend:







Biography: The Great Lover. The Sheik. Mention the name Rudolph Valentino, and these monikers are likely to be the response you'll get. As a boy in Castellaneta, Italy, Rodolpho Alfonzo Rafaelo Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla couldn't have anticipated the fame he would gain in America as Rudolph Valentino. The bi-lingual and intelligent Rodolpho enjoyed a comfortable, middle-class, and somewhat boring childhood punctuated with episodes of mischief. Rudy completed his studies at a nearby agricultural college, and with his mother's reluctant blessing set sail for America in 1913.

Valentino boarded the S.S. Cleveland not as the poor immigrant boy of myth, but as an ambitious young man. Following stints as a gardener's assistant on a Long Island estate, and as a popular dancer at Maxim's in New York City, Valentino finally landed a job touring with "The Masked Model", a show that brought him to California. Valentino's first film appearance was as a dress extra in a ballroom scene in ALIMONY (1917).

In just seven years before his untimely death at age 31, Rudolph Valentino appeared in 14 major films and emerged as a star in every one of them, whether billed so or not. Valentino held quite minor roles in 17 films, consistently cast as a villain. Although Valentino won the part of leading man in 1918's A SOCIETY SENSATION, his culminating bad-guy moment in 1919's EYES OF YOUTH, proved to be a major turning point in his career, somehow revealing the irresistible leading man lurking behind the cartoonish curling lip.

Valentino received his first real shot at stardom as Julio in Rex Ingram's epic THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE (1921). First appearing in a barroom scene, a passionate Valentino mesmerized audiences and tangoed his way to instant celebrity (providing some great PR for the dance itself), following through with a fine and complex performance that revealed his character's war time transformation. As a professional dancer in New York, Valentino learned to move with a sort of grace and finesse arguably unfamiliar to moviegoers of the day - primarily used to actors functioning as caricatures of singular personality traits.

Certainly this grace wasn't lost on Dorothy Gish, who back in 1919 persuaded D.W. Griffith to cast the night club sensation in OUT OF LUCK. After THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE, Valentino was no longer a heavy or a gigolo. He was a new kind of leading man, who brought an extraordinary sex appeal and sensitivity to the screen. What Valentino liberally exuded complemented female moviegoers' newly-found freedom - thanks to flapperism, to swoon in public.

It was 1921's THE SHEIK that so firmly established Valentino's popular reputation as the Great Lover, and his last film - the comical SON OF THE SHEIK (1926) sealed that title. But the actor never thought of himself as a conqueror of women - nor as a great actor. He found the Sheik films rather silly. Rarely acknowledged is Valentino's marked lack of seriousness in many of his "passionate" scenes - from the eyes and body language, it seeems clear that his Sheik Ahmed is largely a parody, until the ultimate scenes when love truly blossoms. Before their break-up, Rudy's ambitious wife Natacha Rambova, responded to her husband's screen image: "My husband is a great lover of home life." Still, the publication of Valentino's volume of poetry Day Dreams in 1923 further-fueled the public's imagination - and drove fans into bookstores with a vengeance.

Valentino's domineering second wife and reputed great love, Natacha Rambova, encouraged arty excursions in his career - like 1924's ill-received MONSIEUR BEAUCAIRE, in which a courtly Valentino delightfully plays a well-powdered French nobleman. Facilitating her husband's break with Paramount, the extravagant Rambova was banned by United Artists from the set of Clarence Brown's THE EAGLE (1925), which proved to be Valentino's comeback film following a hiatus from the screen during which accruing debts inspired Natacha and Rudolph to tour the country in a phenomenally popular tango exposition.

Although his marriage to Rambova was falling apart, Valentino's admirable performance in THE EAGLE, as a sort of "Russian Robin Hood", is both highly-stylized and comedic - a tribute to his underappreciated talent and professionalism. It should be noted that in 1925's COBRA, Valentino's Count Torriani doesn't get the girl in the end. Resisting his lady-killing image, Valentino had plans to make more "serious" films, beginning with an ambitious version of EL CID to be called THE HOODED FALCON.

In town for the premiere of SON OF THE SHEIK, Valentino collapsed in New York on August 15, 1926. Sadly, Valentino died eight days later from peritonitis, before he could begin to work on films that would make the public forget his sheikly shenanigans. While the grandiose romantic persona still persists, it is fortunate that we are privy to the outstanding film performances which beautifully reveal Valentino's talent in subtle, humorous ways - and point to the complex performances he was poised to deliver.

Songs my father sang to me
#1

O, Mary, bonny Mary
Will ye marry me
Change your name to McIntosh
It's better than McGhee
Oh, the winter time is coming
Wi' the hail, and rain, and snaw
I'll gie you my mackintosh
Tae keep the rain awa'

Ah, McTag. That is so dear!

You know, listeners, I could go on and on about the songs that my mother sang to me, but it would take up several hours, and I really don't want to do that. I just know that the traditions in my family of singing to children is inherent. Some time ago, I created a discussion on mother's singing and reading to their unborn children, and the effect was astounding.

I was, incidentally, delighted to discover that Bob Dylan sang one of the songs that my mom sang to me:

"Froggie Went a Courtin'."

McTag, wasn't there a Scottish version of that same song called :

A froggie would a courtin' go; Hi ho said Rolley
Wither his mither would have it or no
(something-something)
Hi ho said Anthony Rolley.

Froggie Went A-courtin'

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1. Mister Frog went a-courtin, he did ride, uh-huh, uh-huh.
Mister Frog went a-courtin, he did ride, uh-huh, uh-huh.
Mister Frog went a-courtin, he did ride,
A sword and buckler by his side, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh.
2. He bridled and saddled a big fat snail, uh-huh, uh-huh.
He bridled and saddled a big fat snail, uh-huh, uh-huh.
He bridled and saddled a big fat snail,
And rode it 'tween the horns and tail, uh-huh, uh-huh. uh-huh.
(all remaining verses same lines, rhythm and meter,
so duplication omitted)
3. He rode up to Miss Mousie's door,
Where he had often been before.
4. He called "Miss Mouse, are you within?"
"Yes sir, I'm sitting down to spin."
5. He took Miss Mouse upon his knee
And asked "My Dear, will you marry me?"
5A. "I'll have to ask my Uncle Rat,
To see what he will say to that."
6. "Without my Uncle Rat's consent
I wouldn't marry the President."
7. Frog jumped on his snail and rode away.
He vowed to come another day.
8. Now Uncle Rat, when he came home
Asked "Who's been here since I was gone?"
9. "A very fine frog's been calling here
And asked for me to be his dear."
10. Uncle Rat, he laughed and shook his sides
To think his niece would be a bride.
11. So Uncle Rat rode into town
To buy Miss Mouse a wedding gown.
12. Say, where will the wedding supper be?
Just down by the river in a hollow tree.
13. Say, what will the wedding supper be?
One green bean and a black-eyed pea.
13A. What else will the wedding supper be?
A fried mosquito and a roasted flea.
14. Pray tell us how Miss Mousie dressed?
In a cobweb veil and her Sunday best.
15. And what did Mister Froggie wear?
Sky-blue pants and a doublet fair.
SEE ALTERNATE ENDING AFTER VERSE 27
16. First guest to call was the Bumble Bee,
And he played them a fiddle tune upon his knee.
17. The next to come were the Duck and Drake,
Who ate every crumb of the wedding cake.
18. "Come Miss Mouse, may we have some beer,
That your uncle and I may have some cheer?"
19. "Pray, Mister Frog, will ye sing a song
That's bright and cheery and shan't last long?"
20. "Indeed, Miss Mouse," replied the Frog,
"A cold has made me as hoarse as a hog."
21. "Since a cold in the head has laid you up,
I'll sing you a song that I just made up."
22. The all sat down and started to chat,
When in came the kittens and the cat.
23. The bride, in fright, runs up the wall,
Turns her ankle and down she falls.
24. They all went sailing 'cross the lake
And all got swallowed by a big black snake.
25. And the ones who escaped were one, two, three,
The Frog, the Rat and Miss Mousie.
26. The Mouse and Frog went off to France,
And that's the end of their romance.
27. There's bread and jam upon the shelf,
If you want some, just help yourself.
ALTERNATE ENDING:
15A. First to come in were two little ants,
Fixing around to have a dance.
16a. Next to come in was a fat sassy lad,
Thinking himself as big as his dad.
17A. Thinks himself a man indeed
Because he chews the tobacco weed.
18A And next to come in was a big tomcat,
He swallowed the Frog, and the Mouse and the Rat.
19A. Next to come in was a big old snake,
He chased the party into the lake.
20A. So that's the end of one, two, three,
The Rat, the Frog, and Miss Mousie.
words & music: folk songs
copyright: public domain
sources:
numbered verses: The Family Car Songbook
1983 Running Press, Philadelphia
"A" verses: Various other song books
transcribed: Dilly
(Note there is a modern parody by the Brothers Four,
on 12" Columbia vinyl LP, CL 1803. It begins:
1. Frog went a-courtin' and he did go, uh-huh, uh-huh
To the Cocoanut Grove for the midnight show.
2. Molly Mouse was the hatcheck girl, woo woo, woo woo
He thought he'd give this chick a whirl... et cetera.