Tangos, Overcoats, and You!

 David Garrison, Priscilla Lopez,

Peggy Hewett and Frank Lazarus

in the Ukraine half

of A Day In Hollywood/A Night In The Ukraine.
We'll sample "Natasha" with
David (with Groucho 'stache)
and Peggy (be-furred, and below with a very large saxophone).

 Peggy Hewett,

as Mrs. Pavlenko.

As a server at a long-gone East Side eaterie,

I waited on Peggy and her hangers-on.

She was snazzy. :)

 Birthday boy, Buddy (B.G.) DeSylva,

born Jan. 27th, 1895.

Before meeting up with the two mischievous types below,

(Buddy on the left, with Lew Brown and Ray Henderson),

Buddy wrote for lyrics for Al Jolson and George Gershwin.

Helen Kane

does the honors with one of that triumvirate's goodies:

"Button Up Your Overcoat"

from 1928's Follow Thru.
Jack Haley (yup, the Tin Man) was the first to sing it in that
original production.

 

And we'll hear another "lyrics by Buddy and Lew"

song from Hold Everything,

"You're The Cream In My Coffee".

We'll also sample a buncha tangos this Sunday...

above "Temptation" from Singin' In The Rain.

This song was also used in 1933's Going Hollywood,

where it was sung by Bing Crosby. 

I doubt I'll have time this Sunday

for La Cumparsita, the iconic tango used in 

Some Like It Hot,

where the dance was taught to Joe E. Brown and Jack Lemmon

by George Raft (!),

but it's a honey...written by Gerardo Matos Rodriguez, 

Pascual Contursi and Enrique Pedro Maroni, back in 1916.