Word: choos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miller fans remembered Tex Beneke best as the whiny-voiced singer of Chattanooga Choo Choo and My Melancholy Baby, or as a hard-riding tenor-sax soloist. Miller helped set up other friends, e.g., Charlie Spivak and Hal Mclntyre, with bands of their own, but Tex didn't want the responsibility. Now, when bands and nightclubs were dropping like overripe apples in a high wind, Tex keeps a payroll of more than 40 busy at a weekly overhead of $9,200. He is making no fortune at it, but a new radio contract with Miller's old sponsor...
...Russians, busy cleaning house on the political levels (see FOREIGN NEWS), found time to cock an ear at the subject of Chattanooga Choo Choo and related items of sub-basement culture. They were not amused. Moscow's mighty Izvestia, whose nods and scowls are promptly imitated by all right-thinking bureaucrats, scowled at "dzhaz...
...admiration of Stalin himself. But sometimes he remembers the days of his youth when he visited the U.S., studied the jazz ways of Harlem, placed second to Louis Armstrong in an international hot trumpeters' contest in 1934. Then Eddy lets himself go, cuts out on St. Louis Blues, Choo Choo or Alexander's Ragtime Band...
Clementine & Alice. Moscow was a little behind the times. Soviet teen-agers were still busy with Chattanooga Choo-choo and Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer. Russia's strangest importation from the West was the U.S. Marines' Hymn, sung to the tune of Clementine (which might give the Russians a dangerously erroneous idea of the Leathernecks). Latest favorite: the American Soldier's Song, which most Russians believe is constantly crooned by G.I.s; it is a speeded up version of There Is a Tavern in the Town, in which the tavern has become the scene...
...travel, Quinn had Fibber attempt a 250-mile train trip, fail to get either a reservation or any sympathy ("If you insist on being bullheaded, why don't you take a cattle car!"), and finally admit that "the railroads have bitten off about as much as they can choo-choo...