Steve, LOL! I can't blame this one on my mother. At one time, she sang with a local "big band" and would occasionally just start singing "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar" or "Minnie the Moocher" while doing housework.

If I listen to a bunch of the stuff, I can get in the right mood to write it, but I don't have any of that sort of music here except on 78's, and I can't play 78's. If I DID manage to come up with a reasonable tune in my head, I'd have to figure out how to get all the stupid little syncopated dots right. I could whip out a new tune in maybe a week or two...and you'd probably get a midi with a horn section that sounded like the Salvation Army on crack.