"Let's Do It" lyrics

[Joel S. Berson]

Mary Martin may have learned better later, when she starred in "South
Pacific" (1949), with its plea for racial tolerance in "You've Got to
be Taught".  (Omitted from the movie, my mother told me years ago.)

Joel

At 3/10/2006 10:48 AM, you wrote:
>speaking of Cole Porter, i've been assembling a playlist of versions
>of "Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love".  (i have a pile of these
>juxtaposition playlists.)  so far: Noel Coward, Ella Fitzgerald, Mary
>Martin. Ella again in a different mood, Billie Holiday, Lee Wiley,
>Greg Graffin/Joan Jett with a rock version, and the incomparable
>Susannah McCorkle with a really long version (six minutes).
>everybody has (somewhat-to-wildly) different words.
>
>i was startled to hear that the Mary Martin and Billie Holiday
>versions, both from the early 40s, begin with: "Chinks do it, Japs do
>it".  well, it was a different time.  those were the olden days, i
>guess.
>
>arnold
>
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