Name That Tune

[Salv]

I don't know if this has been done before, but here's a little game for us to play. Someone posts some lyrics to a song and the first person to guess the lyrics then has to post lyrics to a new song etc. etc. Let's keep the songs pre-1960, and try to make them reasonably well known. Post as many lines as you like without making it too obvious.

I'll start with an easy one:

...the only job that's open needs a man with a knack

 

[Stinchcomb]

Choo Choo Ch'boogie....By B.B. King

 

[Salv]

That's the song (although I was thinking Louis Jordan). Your turn.

 

[Salv]

That rings no bells for me. Anyone else recognise it?

I even tried cheating by googling the lyrics and came up with nothing...

 

[Fletch]

Pass. Must be a forties movie song, tho.

 

[dhermann1]

Right you are!

Tangerine, she is all they claim . . .
Who's next?
BTW, catch Rich Conaty's Big Broadcast tonight on WFUV.ORG if you love the true Golden Oldies. From 8 to 12 EST.

 

[LizzieMaine]

OK, here's one. From 1932...

"Why did I wear those blue pajamas..."

 

[Nonchalant]

"I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan" (Dietz-Schwartz)

Great song, Lizziemaine! I'm particular to the Carroll Gibbons 1941 recording, though Rudy Vallee probably made the definitive version.

 

[Nonchalant]

How about this one, also from 1932...

"You're deep just like a chasm, you've no enthusiasm..."

 

[HadleyH]

How about this one, also from 1932...

"You're deep just like a chasm, you've no enthusiasm..."

"you are tired and uninspired
You are blase..."

Is that the one? "You Are Blase" ?

 

[Viviene]

Ella Fitzgerald "You're Blase."

Here's one from 1947:

"They hurry like savages to get aboard an iron train"

 

[Viviene]

Cross post!

 

[Sunny]

Ella Fitzgerald "You're Blase."

Here's one from 1947:

"They hurry like savages to get aboard an iron train"

"Civilization," recorded by Danny Kaye and the Andrews Sisters lol

 

[Sunny]

Boy, I kinda put the kibosh on the thread! Try this:

I'm speaking of my sweetie pie, only sixty inches high...

 

[LizzieMaine]

"Honey Bun" from South Pacific! Ray Walston in a grass skirt ---- ohhhhhh my!

OK, well, in the same tropical vein, how about --

"...there's coffee and bananas and the temperature's hot!"

 

[Fletch]

"Managua Nicaragua" (1946). Which, BTW, is the tune the hoochie koochie dancer is dancing to in the club scene in The Third Man.

Here's one I'll bet you can't peg unless you have a stack of shellac in the back of the shack -- sorry, still channeling Choo Choo Ch-Boogie there...

Open your arms and I'm a stooge for your charms

 

[Phil]

You're A Builder-Upper. I'm not sure of the artist, but it was my grandfather's favorite song.

 

[Fletch]

Got it Phil!
Recording artists include the composer, Harold Arlen (singing with Leo Reisman's band), and the Casa Loma and Richard Himber bands.

Got a lyric for us, it's your turn...

 

[HadleyH]

The name of this is...

" And when wise men say to me
That Love's young dream never come true..."

 

[Fletch]

To prove that even wise men can be wrong...

I Concentrate On You (Cole Porter) from the film Broadway Melody of 1940