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Marilyn Maxwell & the Electoral College of Musical Knowledge
Here is Marilyn Maxwell, circa 1940 and backed by Kay Kyser’s superb swing band, singing “One Girl and Two Boys.” The song was written by Herb Brown, Lew Brown and Ralph Freed, about a gal who cannot make up her mind between two boys—“one in the tux, and one in the khaki suit.” The boy in khaki (military garb, you understand) seems to be gaining favor until the one in the tux joins the Army, too; and then, woe!, the one in the tux gets his own khaki suit, sending Marilyn “whacky.” She asks her mother, asks her brother; yet no one seems able to decide. It’s the sad, sad story of the pretender and the genuine.
Isn’t that just too apt?
Oh, and one interesting point on Marilyn: she died in Beverly Hills in 1972. Her pall-bearers? Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Frank Sinatra.
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