So I was listening
to a set of cds called Music That Won The
War"which is mostly standard World War II songs, like The White Cliffs of Dover and Coming
in on a Wing and a Prayer and I
hear, for the first time, Carmen Miranda singing Chattanooga Choo Choo, mostly in Spanish but with the odd bit of
English flying through. Once in a while, she sings in something which is
neither English nor Spanish; the chorus, I presume in desperation, tries to get
up a football cheer, going "boom chick-a-boom chick-a-boom
chick-a-boom." Since I know the makers of the set wouldn't lie to me I can
only assume this song drove Hitler to despair. In a crash program, thousands of
recordings were pressed of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf singing Three Little Fishies. She was fearsome but no match for Miranda,
and the Axis was doomed.
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