S5E5: I’ve Got the World on a String | Dean Martin & Sammy Davis Jr.

Trashy Divorces

Hemlock Creatives

Comedy, History

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Are you ready for some Rat Pack? This week, Stacie has so much #trashcandy about Dean Martin, whose ethics seem highly situational, and Alicia covers Sammy Davis Jr., whose life was threatened anytime he fell in love. Can’t get enough #trashcandy? Join us at Patreon.com/TrashyDivorces for early ad-free releases, bonus divorce stories, weekly Trashy Tidbits, limited series like Trashy Tudors, Funne with Dunne, Side Pieces, and a whole lot more. Booklist: Memories Are Made of This: Dean Martin Through His Daughter’s Eyes, by Deana Martin. Dean & Me (A Love Story), by Jerry Lewis. Advertise with Hemlock Creatives We are growing our show offerings! To learn about advertising opportunities with Trashy Divorces, Done & Dunne, and other forthcoming projects, contact AdvertiseCast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Trachee divorces for yet another week. I'm Stacy.
0:04.4	Hey friends, I'm Alicia. Welcome back. Trashy D yo.
0:07.9	Do you have the world on a string?
0:09.3	Oh gosh, sitting on a rainbow.
0:11.3	This week we're going to continue the season of Frank Sinatra and all of the threads that spill from there.
0:17.0	We definitely have the world on a string this week.
0:20.0	The song, I've got The World on a String is a 1932 popular jazz song.
0:27.0	It was composed by Harold Arlen, who also composed the music for Somewhere Over the Rainbow and the Wizard of Us.
0:35.0	There you go.
0:36.4	Interesting.
0:37.4	Does he just have a thing for rainbows?
0:38.4	Apparently.
0:39.4	It's a big deal.
0:40.4	Lyrics by Ted Kohler, and it was written for the 21st edition of the Cotton Club series which opened on October 23rd,
0:48.6	1932, the first of the Cotton Club parades.
0:52.3	So we're going to talk a little bit about this guy in my story this week,
0:55.0	but the song, I've got The World on a String,
0:57.0	is originally introduced and recorded by Cab Calloway.
1:01.0	We have that link on our website.
1:03.0	Bing Crosby will later record it in 1936
1:06.6	with the Dorsey Brothers and their orchestra.
1:10.2	This song is actually one of the first
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