Word: boula
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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Ending in a swing version of "Fair Harvard," the runner-up team gave an act as radio comedians. Harlow played the trumpet and Wright the piano, while the other two sang and trucked during the rendition of the song, inserting at one point "I could sing Boula, Boula, even sing ...." Snell's contribution was featured by a rendition of Beethoven's "Minnet in G" on the harmonica, and Funk Sang the prologue to "Pagliacci...
Quentin Roosevelt started the program off by doing a little detective work with songs, pointing out how "The Old Spinning Wheel" came from "Boula Boula," and how "Oh Mama, that Moon is Here Again" was derived from "The Volga Boatman." Lewis's "That Man Coolidge," a monologue, was given by Charles H. Stearns as the next thing on the program...
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