[Ads-l] "get tres gay on"
Dan Goncharoff
thegonch at GMAIL.COM
Wed Dec 27 00:31:00 UTC 2017
I was listening to SiriusXM 40s Junction today in the car.
The Bing Crosby/Andrews Sisters version of Route 66 came on.
At the end of the song, Bing sings "get tres gay on (Route 66)", which
strikes me as an unusual construction for the 1940s.
The song is here:
https://youtu.be/FJ4GBrnRBic
DanG
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