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“Cocktails for Two” Script
A maestro of satire, Spike Jones and his City Slickers found fame in the 1940s by murdering the classics. Jones’s formula was simple—to laugh at the song, and with it. He masterminded this satire of a popular tune, complete with sound effects and a film short—an earworm-ish comedic tornado of audio and visuals. Sam Coslow,…
“Cocktails for Two”: Primary Research
This song, “Cocktails for Two”, is a satire of a song of the same name. Sam Coslow, a songwriter during the Big Band era, wrote the original “Cocktails for Two”. The song was released in 1934. Its lyrics are celebratory of the end of Prohibition in the United States. The 21st Amendment, which ended Prohibition,…
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