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Thread #22616   Message #2403206
Posted By: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
01-Aug-08 - 03:13 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Yiddish Is the Kvelling Tongue
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Yiddish is the kvelling tongue
Frank Gallop, the announcer for the old Perry Como TV show for years, put out a record called "When You're in Love, The Whole World is Jewish," or something close to that, back in the early 1960's. One of the cuts was "Irving, the 142nd Fastest Gun in the West." Some of the lines I recall:

"141 were faster than he, but Irving was looking for 143."

"Irving took three slugs in the belly; it was right in front of the
old Frontier Deli."

This would have been contemporaneous with Allen Sherman's work.