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Thread #50286   Message #2960418
Posted By: MGM·Lion
08-Aug-10 - 12:45 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: I Found a Peach in Orange New Jersey
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Found a Peach in Orange New Jersey
The song adduced by Genie above is very similar to the snatch sung by Danny Kaye [lyrics by Sylvia Fine] in the "Manic-Depressive Pictures Present" cinema-foyer song in his first film, "Up In Arms" ~~ an intentional travesty of the sort of song one would expect to hear sung in a Hollywood musical of the time: "When it's apple-blossom time in Orange New Jersey, We'll make a peach of a pair ['pear']; Oh I know we can't elope ['canteloupe'], but honey do be mine..."

~Michael~