[78-L] Capitalist tool

[Steven C. Barr]

From: "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
>> No argument there, although Buttons and Bows was written for a Bob Hope
>> movie.
>> It became a hit despite the AFM's best efforts (both Dinah Shore's and 
>> Bob
>> Hope's recordings were made with non-union back-up). That song is a gem
>> compared to Toolie Oolie Doolie and that Ken Griffin waltz I wish the
>> Germans
>> would reclaim once and for all. The big bands were priced out of the
>> business,
>> folks were staying home and watching television, jazz was splitting off
>> into
>> introspective and incomprehensible directions, movies were NOT better 
>> than
>> ever, and yeah, pop music was pretty lousy. Broadway musicals were one of
>> the
>> rare exceptions.
>> Also spracht Lenny.
> I like Buttons and Bows...it works very well in the movie.  Long ago I had 
> a
> Victor vocal of it by...Betty Rhodes or some such person...I liked it 
> better
> than Dinah's.
> There should have been a blues version of one of those other songs:  "Keep
> Your Hands Off My Toolie Oolie Doolie."  It could have been recorded by 
> Bull
> Moose Jackson and put on the other side of....you know which one.
>
Oddly enough. "...Bows" was one of my favourite tunes when it was new
and current...and I was about 6! I used to hear it on WIND's top 20 show,
on my dad's car radio...!

Steven C. Barr