On Jul 25, 6:40=A0pm, "Jef." <jefATquitbuddiesDOTorg> wrote:
> "Matt" wrote
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> > Jef.................LMAO..............+ as Timohir says.........you
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> > great comedy+imagination+parody on RL, send some scripts 2 TV
> > Land.............you never know............
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> This "song" was actually first sung in our living room in Frankfurt,
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> in about 1957 or so, by a bunch of drunken, American G.I.s who always
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> to hang around our house back then on the weekends. I forget, now, just
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> made it up. Nick Clooney-- father of actor George-- was among them.
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> He was then an American soldier working at AFN Radio, where my father
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> the program director. Nick was in Special Services-- along with a bunch
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> other misfit, show-biz types who had too much talent to suit them well
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> regular, =A0Army-type stuff, but kinda lacked the discipline or
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> needed to be spit-and-polish soldiers.
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> Gary Crosby, one of Bing's sons, was another one of these "uncles" of
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> It was a strange environment. No wonder I turned out the way I have...
You have story in the collection about all this?
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