The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #9518   Message #915297
Posted By: JJ
21-Mar-03 - 08:46 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: A Bushel and a Peck (Frank Loesser)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love you a bushel and a peck
"More I Cannot Wish You" was written specifically for the old vaudevillian Pat Rooney Sr. and recalls behavior attributed to young lovers through slang which was obsolete even in 1950.

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