Dear Diary,
Bob was at the Air Corps gunnery school at Kingman, Arizona, tonight, on the first stop in his latest tour of camps. He will broadcast from Camp Hood, Texas, next week. Virginia Bruce was Bob’s guest. Being in Arizona, they naturally did a western sketch. Bob and Skinnay sang a duet to the tune of “Jingle Jangle Jingle,” only instead of spurs, it was burrs. It seems that they backed into a cactus plant. Bob also said a lot tonight about Dorothy Lamour’s recent wedding. He said, “I guess Crosby and I will have to get a job now.” He also said that the pin which used to hold up Dottie’s sarong was in the Smithsonian Istitute with this placard, “Never before has so much depended on so little for so long.”
Dear Diary,
I read an article today about the different singing habits of the Hollywood song-birds. It was written by Frank Loesser, who wrote “Jingle Jangle Jingle” and other popular songs. He said (naturally) that Bing Crosby is the easiest singer to write for, because he sings all types of songs equally well. About Bob Hope he says, “Bob Hope needs songs which match his personality – not too much maudlin romance but lots of gaiety and life and a touch of ‘tongue in the cheek.’ Bob’s a very self-conscious performer, and he knows his own limitations. Timing is something else that is very important to the comedian – and therefore to his song-writers. My ‘Two Sleepy People’ is an example of a Hopesque song.”
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