Got a gal named Lucinda, we call her the great pretender.
Mr. Beneke's vocals were also heard on Miller hits like "I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo," "Ida!
Enter a beatific Barrymore singing "I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo" (at that time a hit recording by Glenn Miller and the Modernaires).
Most of his order was shortly processed, and he enjoyed himself, smiling broadly, as the band played "Bama Lama Bama Loo": Got a gal named Lucinda, we call her the great pretender.
Contributing to the success of the Miller band was tenor saxophonist-singer Tex Beneke, whose country-tinged vocals highlighted such numbers as "Chattanooga Choo Choo" and "(I've Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo".
That's all there is to this film, apart from a clutch of women who run around in their underwear for no real reason and a title song that goes: "I've got a gal, she's as cute as she can be/She's a distant cousin but she's not too distant with me".
Cora Mae was born two years earlier, but the lyrics were clearly about someone else: "I've got a gal, she's long and tall, every time she do the shimmie I holler, Hot Dog!" When Lance Ledbetter and Art Rosenbaum arrived at Bryant's house one morning in December, the place looked welcoming enough.
Miller's recordings include "In the Mood", "Moonlight Serenade", "Pennsylvania 6-5000", "Chootanooga Choo Choo", "A String of Pearls", "At Last", "(I've Got a Gal In) Kalamazoo", "American Patrol", "Tuxedo Junction", "Elmer's Tune", and "Little Brown Jug".
"Chattanooga Choo-Choo" (Chattanooga, Tenn).. "I Got a Gal in Kalamazoo" (Kalamazoo, Mich .. "Tuxedo Junction" (a streetcar crossing in Birmingham, Ala., that was the site of a famous nightclub).
William is already a true fanboy of the park—he's desperate to "find out what it means"—and even though he tells Dolores that he's got a gal back home, well, what happens in the park stays in the park.
