[78-L] Musical Mobsters

[David Lennick]

Steven C. Barr wrote:
>>
>> A song about the end of Prohibition would be the Sam Coslow-Arthur 
>> Johnston "Cocktails for Two," written for the 1934 Paramount film "Murder 
>> at the Vanities," with its verse about "What a delight to be given the 
>> right to be carefree and gay once again/No longer slinking, respectably 
>> drinking like civilized ladies and men/No longer need we miss/A charming 
>> scene like this...."  (Cue Spike Jones and the pistol shots!)
>>
> EXCEPT that the above lyrics very seldom are heard in the recorded 
> versions...?!
> 
> ...stevenc 
> 

The hell they aren't!

Carl Brisson
Spike Jones
Stan Freberg (in fact the verse is ALL he uses)

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