let's see

I was ok with: a whipoorwill, a big boat in trouble, a doggie,

But then you lost me. Glenn Miller's most famous piece? I dunno. Ava Gardner? Or was that Harry James?

A kayak to Quinsey? Chicago was Sinatra's kind of town but so was New York New York, but I don't know kayak songs.

Yours, admittedly stumped
Bill