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...week this old tongue twister, with new and even less intelligible lyrics, was the fast-climbing No. 2 seller in Billboard magazine's poll of record sales. It was well on its way to join Mairzy Boats and the Hut Sut Song in the jabberwocky Valhalla of the jukebox. Twenty-nine-year-old Ar kansas-born Jo Proffitt had changed the Chinaman into a chick, and called it Chickery Chick. She sent the lyrics to Tin Pan Alleysmith Sidney Lippman, who added some new notes. Now it describes a chicken who got bored with saying "chick chick...
...graduate of the University of California. She said she had left Los Angeles "to see a sick aunt" in Japan in July 1941, was stranded in Tokyo after Pearl Harbor. She was surprised at her popularity among U.S. servicemen (who liked to listen to her program of old jukebox favorites, which were intended to make G.I.s home sick) and amazed that anyone would be lieve she had done her native U.S. wrong: "I didn't think I was doing anything dis loyal." According to Iva, two other girls dou bled on the Zero Hour, one American, one Canadian...
...jukebox and hit-parade tune last week was Lyricist Johnny Mercer's On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe - from the railroad of the same name. Written two years ago for M.G.M.'s yet unreleased The Harvey Girls, the song began catching on a month ago, became one of the quickest hits in the history of the U.S. music business. Sheet-music sales to date...
...Jill's formula is simple: she plays jazz records by request, gives her fan-letter writers a little glib back talk, tells gags, babbles brightly on almost any subject. Sample opening to sailors: "Hiya, fellas. This is Jill again, all set to rock the bulkheads on the old jukebox and shoot the breeze to the sons of Mother Carey...
...with her husband, ex-Radioman Mort Werner. As "Jack and Jill" they served up a mixture of jazz and banter called Hi, Neighbor. A.F.R.S. took over the program in the spring of 1943. Soon Jill (minus Jack) was doing a solo act called G.I. Jive (now AEF Jukebox...