Show i A New Yorker at Large By GILBERT SWAN NEW YORK April 1 Although I not included among the many Broadway Broadway Broadway Broad Broad- way legends it so happens that a atop atop- topIcal top top- ical teal song on once c e found its way into the Congressional Record And so ro far as anyone anone seems to know It happened but once Which V h 1 chis is the basis of a talc tale concerning concerning con con- Roy Atwill At- At will an actor of the gentler school of yesteryear who 1 looks 0 0 k s something like Senator and the lat late Richard Carlo Carle He HB both act acted d and wrote which he still does docs his immediate forte being the thc hilarious garbling of the English language while imitating a a. public speaker The ron song was titled tilled Put a Bug In Your Ear It appeared more than 15 years ears ago and had enough verses choruses and assorted Items to keep keepIt It going for seven se minutes flat fiat 1 if necessary Whole sections of it are arc picked up to this day day and and not aiwa al always always al- al wa ways s 's credited d particularly those thoc verses erses carrying humorous obituary notices Well It was at the time that the pure imre food law was raising so much dust in to Washington ex explained explained ex- ex the other night Most people people peo peo- plc may not remember it but It-but but the adul adulteration of canned food products was under fire tire In the heat of one of the senate debates the matter of germs erms microbes and such came up It so happened that my song had a aline aline allne line which went Some little bug is 15 going to bite you jou ou some day Ono One senator decided that this f fitted fit it- it ted rl right ht into his argument so 50 he took the song and read it Into the record There it has stayed They told me mc only the other day in Washington that this is the one and only pop song ong thus preserved The Tho story pops up c every now and then at Washington Funny part of ot It was that President Hoover seemed to have heard of it So Just before the annual jinx for forthe forthe the tho president I was asked to come comedown comedown comedown down and do the old song over together to together together to- to gether with my political speech stunt The president seemed to get a good laugh and Ive I've got a letter better here tellIng telling tell tell- ing me he appreciated it And s speaking aking of songs songs- Its It's getting so Im I'm afraid to turn on the radio any more Its It's breaking my heart At breakfast I if 11 someone isn't blue again then its it's either a case ee of Kid youre you're driving me crazy or suffering mitering from lonely Jonely love And just before bedtime Im I'm supposed to weep because some bird is Just a gigolo As though I cared A couple of experts inform me that the crooners are to blam blame The sad music fits their particular form of ot ofa a whispered singing or 01 something like Uke that that Also those 0 hus voiced husky gals c who have b been n t I perching on A pianos ever er since E Helen Morgan I cI started the style s. s I arc all aU running around with cardiac cardia car car- dia diac pains They're all blue for one reason or another T The They Ii e y either cither want to die or weep Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Some- Some times both on one at a time tune They never seem to have any my fun Too many people are yearning yearn yearn- ing Why the dickens dont don't they do something about it They'll get us all behaving the same mc way pretty soon And since when were we supposed supposed sup sup- posed to worry over what happened to x gigolos The average per person on even en lit In n New York wouldn't know one ono 1 If they saw one Copyright 1031 1931 NEA E EA Service Inc |