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From: acsgjjp@sunybcs.UUCP (The Central Scrutinizer)
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Subject: Re: Re: The Worst Lyrics You've Ever Heard
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Date: Wed, 24-Oct-84 19:05:06 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 24 19:05:06 1984
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[Hearts full of youth, hearts full of truth; 6 parts gin to 1 part vermouth."]
> >> You bet I remember "Three little fitties;" however, I was five or
> >> six at the time, so I can't remember the name of the song.....
> >> .....  I think this song came out sometime between 1950 and 1952.
> >
> >I would have guessed sometime in the 1940's, but memory is treacherous.
> >I think it was just called "Three Little Fishes".  
>
> ....the Three Little whatever's .  My father says he heard it in college
> in the mid 30's. I don't doubt that there was a version in the early
> 50's though; the idea that covering other people's songs showes a lack
> of creativity is a fairly new one. 

Kay Kyser's "Three Little Fishies (Itty Bitty Poo)" was indeed out in the
30's.  It may have had a comeback in later times.  (How many out there
have heard of (or even remember) Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge (?))
I know this because I remember hearing these old songs on the Dr. Demento
show, when it was on here in Buffalo. (Since this past January, I've been
listening to it on CHUM-FM from Toronto.)

Maybe there should be a net.music.demented for us devotees of the show :-) .
(He plays Tom Lehrer!)
"Tom Lehrer is to college life what Mark Russell is to American politics."
-- 
From under the smogberry trees.... 
Jim Poltrone  (a/k/a Poltr1, the Last of the Raster Blasters)
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