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...creator of this latter day Water Music is a short, jumpy Tin Pan Alleyite named Frank Loesser, who has a remarkable talent for tunes that at first attract and then nauseate. His biggest hit was Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition; another song of his, Tallahassee, is climbing on the hit parade...
Born in Manhattan, Loesser was a fast man with a rhyme when he was ten, but had to wait 17 years for his first successes. Among them: the lyrics for Hoagy Carmichael's Small Fry and Two Sleepy People. In Hollywood, he has made big money writing movie music...
...Santa Ana (Calif.) Air Base, he was the nearest thing to an Irving Berlin or George M. Cohan of World War II. Loesser ground out some 200 service songs, including a slap at 4-Fs, They're Either Too Young or Too Old, a parade tune called What Do You Do in the Infantry, and one for the WACs: First Class Private Mary Brown...
Songsmith Loesser thinks of himself as a kind of folk musician of the jukebox, capturing "topical feelings." He likes to think that he avoids "idealizing the romantic. Of course, I slip every now and then, and turn out something like Moon of Manakoora...
...evening at a Hollywood party, Songwriter Frank Loesser (Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition) saw Burrows at the piano, ad-libbing caustic caricatures of prominent guests and singing parodies of popular songs. After that evening, due to Loesser's ballyhooing, Abe had little time for work. He was invited to more parties than he could attend. As soon as he arrived, he would be plied with drinks ("I think drinking is only good if done to excess," he says) and virtually chained to the piano for the four hours or so it takes to go through his repertory...