Swinging on a Star is an American pop standard with music composed by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Johnny Burke. It was introduced by Bing Crosby in the 1944 film Going My Way
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Song lyrics to Tea for Two – created for the Broadway musical No, No, Nanette. It’s since been used in the musical Tea for Two, and places ranging from the Looney Tunes to Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show.
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To the looking-glass world it was Alice that said:
I’ve a sceptre in hand, I’ve a crown on my head.
Let the looking-glass creatures, whatever they be
Come dine with the Red Queen, the White Queen, and me.
When the sun in the morning peeps over the hill
And kisses the roses ’round my window sill
Then my heart fills with gladness when I hear the trill
Of the birds in the treetops on Mockingbird Hill
Never before has my heart felt a thrill like this
Never before
Never before
Never before has the whole world stood still like this
As I gaze at the face I simply adore
After today when they speak of our paradise
I’ll smile and I’ll say I’ve been there once or twice
For this is that once in a lifetime
The miracle of your kiss
I’ve never loved like this
Never before
Editor’s note: So everyone knows: there’s a contention on the proper pronunciation of “calliope”. I’ve heard circus people (and other performers) say “cal-ee-OPE”, while other people pronounce it “cal-I-o-pea”. In this song, “the old calliope” uses the second pronunciation.
Second note: Technically, Jerry Lewis sings along with Dean Martin, but not very often — and then, clownishly. This is clearly Dean’s song. Although the dancing the two perform is clearly a 50/50 proposition.
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The song Jingle Jangle Jingle was featured in the film The Forest Rangers. The most commercially successful recording was by Kay Kyser, whose version reached no. 1 in the Billboard charts in July 1942. More recently, it was featured in the video game Fallout: New Vegas. Versions were recorded by many others, including Tex Ritter, Gene Autry, Glenn Miller and The Merry Macs. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.
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Editor’s note: In Sailor Beware, Dean Martin is singing Today Tomorrow Forever as an audition on a radio show. His pal Jerry Lewis “helps” him, with a chorus of their fellow sailors, singing various replies, trying to get Dean to break up. It goes something like this:
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Come on and play the sailors’ polka
Make way for Navy blue
Oh how the girls love to polka
With a sailor who’s tried and true
Where there is music and there’s moonlight
The Navy knows what to do
So come on and play the sailors’ polka
Make way for Navy blue