Stereo
Single release: RCA-45RPM-61-8518
( same flip side )
Notes: ~ St. Louis is in Missouri, and that's
known as 'The Show-Me' State. And that's what this bright novelty tune is
all about: a gal who has come a long way from St. Louis but, according to
the guy she's trying to impress, still has a long way to go. Bob Russell
and
John Benson Brooks collaborated on the song inn 1948. Russell wrote the
words for such hits as
Frenesi, Maria Elena, Don't
Get Around Much Anymore and Brazil. Brooks,
a leading arranger
for big bands ( including Les Brown's and Tommy Dorsey's ), also
had some
hits, among them Who Threw the Whisky in the Well and Just as
Though You Were Here.
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