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Died. Walter Schumann, 44, who described himself as a "commercial musician," composer, director of The Voices of Walter Schumann, a 20-member choral group; of a heart ailment; at University Hospital, Minneapolis. Walter Schumann's credits were various and occasionally bizarre. In 1941 he published The Hut-Sut Song (lyrics: "Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla brawla sooit . . ."), also wrote the famed dum-da-dum-dum theme of radio-TV's Dragnet series...
Song for song, few of Tin Pan Alley's tunesmiths can match the havoc wrought by a gum-chewing Oklahoman named Jack Owens. He has an assist on a public nuisance of 1941 called The Hut-Sut Song, wrote Hi, Neighbor, a song which has become the nightly entering wedge of Pal Joey-type masters of ceremony the U.S. over. He composed for Red Skelton something called I Dood It, and in his own tenor voice has crooned the merits of orange drinks and frankfurters for singing commercials...
Open the Door, Richard! made no more sense than Kilroy, or Chickery Chick or The Hut-Sut Song-and was obviously in for the same flash fame. Its simple-minded chorus, something that any fool could sing and many...
Constant readers decoded it at a glance. It wasn't the second verse of the Hut-Sut Song, but the shortest way of saying that a man who had once slugged an umpire had now been arrested on a charge of picking the pockets of a sleeping citizen...
...Variety tabulation of best-sellers of 1941 included The Hut-Sut Song, Elmer's Tune, Joltin' Joe Di Maggio, Booglie Wooglie Piggy...