Word: voo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...along with many other hits and scores for movie and Broadway musicals; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills. His father wanted him to be a plumber, but Jimmy had other ideas, and by 1921 he was on Broadway's Tin Pan Alley turning out Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo and Lone-somest Girl in Town. In 1928 he scored his first musical, Blackbirds of 1928, which contained I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby...
...Then there are those songs which, although unconnected with the war effort, become popular anyway and are ever after associated with the period, like Lili Marlene, Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me), and Mairzy Doats. And, finally, there is the hinky-dinky-parlay-voo tradition of battlefield ballads composed by the boys themselves. Sometimes ironic, often obscene, and almost always derived from some other melody, these songs are refreshingly free of the jingoistic slush of the homeside ditties. Among their number are the pornographic They Were Only Playing Leapfrog, the hauntingly bitter...
Mademoiselle from Armentières, parley-voo...
Mademoiselle from Armentières, parley-voo...
Hinky dinky, parley-voo...