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...burning heat/ Of a bridal suite/ In use,/ You're the breasts of Venus/ You're King Kong's penis/ You're self-abuse!" In 1948, for a Bob Hope Christmas tour in support of the Berlin airlift, he adapted the Ralph Rainger-Leo Robin "Thanks for the Memory." The bridge went: "Thanks to the fighting Air Force/ That daily took its toll;/ Now it's a humane Air Force/ With heart and soul,/ Dropping wheat and coal." (If Hope were touring today, he could sing the lyric in Afghanistan...
...Palm Springs thought they saw someone bail out in a parachute. But what they saw was the transport's tail assembly. Then the airliner screamed crazily earthward, careened into a mountainside. The wreckage burned for five hours; the three crew members and nine passengers, including Songwriter Ralph Rainger (Moanin' Low, Love in Bloom), were dead...
Because only six of the Dresser melodies (best: My Gal Sal, Wabash, The Convict and The Bird) were considered sufficiently undated, Songwriters Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger turned out four new tunes. Any or all of them (Here You Are, Oh, The Pity Of It All, Me and My Fella, On The Great White Way) should be best-seller-bound...
...Linda Darnell and dancing of George Murphy are present for decorative purposes, though both are outshone by Walter Brennan portraying an octogenarian with libido trouble. And for the role of Seabiscuit, a gambler's comic stooge, Milton Berle has developed an appropriate whinny, to which the Robin and Rainger tunes contrast favorably...
...Near completion was a Darryl Zanuck picture, Cadet Girl, which had been tailored around a patriotic song, Uncle Sam Gets Around, by Songwriters Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger (Thanks for the Memory). Sample lines...