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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...
Last 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...
...Variety tabulation of best-sellers of 1941 included The Hut-Sut Song, Elmer's Tune, Joltin' Joe Di Maggio, Booglie Wooglie Piggy...
...regularity, for he can find his fill of pleasure in a few records. Two years ago a musicians' magazine ran a contest in which the defended their selections of ten jazz records they should pick with which to be marooned on the usual desert island. Even the feadest Hut-Sut fan would find that the saturation point is reached after a very few repetitions of his favorite of the moment and nine other arias of that ilk. But the subtlety, originality, and the personal element in a good jazz performance make it a continual source of enjoyment. The appreciative listener...
...authors of The Hut-Sut Song-to whose bouncing tune the lyrics of Hot Shot Dawson can easily be sung-last week kept silent as soo-it, mum as a rillerah...