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I call this collection of questions "Odd Combinations". The idea is that there are some songwriters who wrote two songs that are so different from each other that it's hard to believe the same person wrote both.
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A songwriter using the pseudonym David Seville in the late fifties learned how to use a tape recorder to speed up his voice, and created some novelty songs, starting with Witch Doctor. He also created the characters Alvin and the Chipmunks, who appeared in a children's animated television show. But before he created the characters of David Seville and the chipmunks, he wrote one of the first hits for a singer who got her start in the forties, and whose nephew now has a big role in a television drama.What was David Seville's real name, what was the song, who was the singer, and who is her nephew?
Sammy Lerner (not of Lerner and Lowe, but a different guy) wrote the English words to the song Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It), which Marlene Dietrich sang in the movie The Blue Angel. He also wrote the words and music for a song that has been used in many, many short movies (the number is probably in the hundreds). The song is the theme song for a particular character.What is the song?
In 1865, Henry Clay Work wrote Marching Through Georgia to celebrate General Sherman's capture of Atlanta and march to the sea in the Civil War (I imagine they didn't sing it at the Atlanta Olympic games, since Sherman's army burned Atlanta and destroyed everything in their path while marching to the sea). In 1876, Work wrote another song that some credit with introducing a common term into the English language.What is the song?
Tommie Connor wrote the English words to the German song Lili Marlene. He also wrote the words and music for a holiday novelty song that sold over a million records. The first recorded version of the song was sung by a thirteen-year-old boy.What is the song?
Dave Franklin wrote the words for the Anniversary Waltz (not "Oh, how we danced on the night we were wed...", but a different song - thanks to David Owens for this bit of info). He also wrote the words to a song whose melody has been used in hundreds of cartoons. It is seems likely that most people have never heard the words to the song, which involve a piece of faulty equipment.What is the song?
Lew Pollack wrote the jazz standard That's A-Plenty in 1914. He also wrote the music for a sentimental ethnic song that was recorded by Sophie Tucker.What is the song?
Oliver Wallace wrote the words to Hindustan, which many big bands recorded. He also wrote the words and music for a propaganda song that was used in a Donald Duck cartoon, and was also recorded by Spike Jones and His City Slickers.What is the song? What cartoon was it used in?
Jack Norworth and Nora Bayes co-wrote Shine On, Harvest Moon. Norworth also co-wrote a song in 1908, with Albert Von Tilzer, that thousands of people sing every day in the United States for approximately six months out of the year.What is the song?
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