| Show Parties Aint th the Same Now Oakie's Dry By Robbin Coons HOLLYWOOD HOLLYWOOD Confessions of ot Hollywoods Hollywood's bad ex-bad boy Jack Oakie a year and a half after his hIt last personal contact with ith interior varnish Am I havin any fun Well yes and yes and no Yep its it's wonderful in the mornings That's fine Birds singing sun rising Oakie shining wonderful Parties are different though Hardest part is before dinner Everybody sitting around chattering chattering chat chat- and glowing and I dont don't know what to do with myself I hold a glass of soda pop in my hand and I walk up to guys and andI I say something bright and ft It aint so bright and I know it A drinks and Id I'd think Id I'd wowed em So I always try to get to parties late late S f After dinner I keep up the same line 1 X drink soda pop and more soda pop Sometimes I wonder wonder wonder won won- der if the pop isn't worse than the shellac You know what's happening to me Terrible thing The drunks annoy me I sit off in the corner by myself and look at em and I think who I to get ann annoyed But its it's true shelp shep me and me-and and some of my old bud buddies ies too oo I was at a party the other night and the shellac w was t s flowing over the floor but all around me The host comes up and hes he's talking and andI I pulls him closer and says Talk right at me fell fella Im I'm Im I'm Im I'm not drinkin it but I like the breath Ha-ha- Ha ho ho-ho But parties are cramped nowadays nowadays now S 'S not like the old days Everybody's on guard People arent aren't s saying what they're think- think they're Ing-they're ng they're afraid it'll get back to the boss or to somebody who matters There used to be real clambakes in Hollywood Lotta laughs Like when a fellow took tooka a beefsteak and pinned it to the tail ail of his coat and walked around that way all through a party Why we thought that was funny But now they'd probably say Throw that guy out They definitely wouldn't think a fellow was funny if they walked in and caught him sawing off the legs of th their ir piano Once once we we laughed like everything at that Hollywoods different another way too I remember when a producer producer pro pro- ducer got up in meeting and said about a big star This fellow was drunk last night and insulted me and my wife but Im I'm happy to announce that weve we've just signed hIm ilm to a new year five-year contract contract contract con con- tract Those were the days when a astar astar astar star could get by with anything We- We used to have some big names so big nobody could imagine the movies without em but most of exT em em are gone today Stars SCars fars ant cant get by with funny stuff One false step and the doors door's open open and and you get knocked down by the crush r r si rI rIt t Jacic Oakie Is he havin arty any fun Well yes and no of f f people comin in to take their place Yep Im I'm havin fun all right I know wh what t to do with the shellac shellac shel shel- lac and nd that's le leave ve it alone Cant Can't play with it and I dont don't need it Fellow I feel sorry for is the one who's on the wagon and cant can't sleep He goes to bed early like a good boy but after four or or five hours of and hes he's crazy Then he thinks thinks- maybe he can sleep if he lie takes one or two two two- and h he's hes s 's off Me I never nevez have any trouble pin Not me |
