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Popular music references in Stooges' shorts

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Big Chief Apumtagribonitz:
     If you don't mind going all the way back to Booby Dupes, Curly misquotes the title ( he calls it "Don't Chop the Wood, Mother, Father's coming Home With a Load"), but there's legitimately a tune recorded by Bob Crosby and the Bobcats called " Here Comes Your Pappy With the Wrong Kind of Load ".

Big Chief Apumtagribonitz:
     Also, I forget the episode, but at some point Moe has got Curly's ear in a pair of scissors, and Curly yells " I surrender, Dear, I surrender".  The "dear " is rather inexplicable unless you realize that " I Surrender Dear " was a big hit for Bing Crosby around that time.
     
     Also, the exchange "I'll take LaMarr" "I'll take Lamour" "I'll take LaZonga with six lessons" refers to the Jimmy Dorsey big-band hit " Six Lessons from Madame LaZonga ".  That's in one of the Hitler spoofs, I forget which one.

Big Chief Apumtagribonitz:
     I just thought of another one:  in Boobs In Arms,  Richard Fiske says, at least twice, " Everything Happens to Me ".  This is the title of a song that was popular right around then.

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