SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT
1 I WAS oiling the office lie detector the other afternoon — the one we use for top level interviews — when an irreverent colleague, who was consulting the "Oxford Dictionary of Quotations," announced with a grin that the name of the composer of the song, "You made me love you; I didn’t want to do it," was Joseph McCarthy. That reminded another colleague of an ancient gramophone record, "The Disorderly Room,’ by Tommy Handley’s "Roosters" concert party, in which two lines of the song were parodied -- perhaps prophetically — to read, "Take me, take me back this time, sir; I swear I never will commit another crime, sir."" The music of "You made me love you" was composed by Jimmy Monaco. According to Sigmund Spaeth's "A History of Popular Music in America," the song "combines ragtime with the good old motif of self-pity."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 768, 9 April 1954, Page 25
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145SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 768, 9 April 1954, Page 25
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