Babes on Broadway (1941)
Ray McDonald: Ray Lambert
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Quotes
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Tommy 'Tom' Williams , Morton 'Hammy' Hammond , Ray Lambert : [singing] Once Mr. Woolworth, Didn't have a dime, And Irving Berlin, Didn't have a rhyme, And Thomas Dewey, Didn't have a crime, But anything can happen in New York
Morton 'Hammy' Hammond : Once Rockefeller, Didn't have that oil
Ray Lambert : And Tiffany, He didn't have a purl
Tommy 'Tom' Williams : And Ziegfeld, Didn't even have a gurl
Tommy 'Tom' Williams , Morton 'Hammy' Hammond , Ray Lambert : But anything can happen in New York
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Ray Lambert : Maybe we ought to change our name to the "Three Puffs of Smoke."
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Tommy 'Tom' Williams : A cause. A great, big beautiful cause. Something that'll tug at their heartstrings, make them dig down in their jeans and bring tears to their eyes.
Ray Lambert : You better stop eating that salami.
Tommy 'Tom' Williams : Don't you realize that America is cause-crazy? Why, they give shows for everybody: China, the Red Cross, Bundles for Britain. Surely, there must be some place they haven't thought of.
Ray Lambert : Right here.
Tommy 'Tom' Williams : Now you're talking!
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Tommy 'Tom' Williams , Penny Morris , Morton 'Hammy' Hammond , Jenny , Ray Lambert , Barbara Jo : [singing] We're babes on Broadway, We're goin' places, When our new faces appear, It's a wonderful street, For babes like us to be on, We're here because, We want our names in neon, We left Topeka, We left Eureka, And came to seek a career, Oh, we're milkin' applause, Instead of milkin' a cow, 'Cause we're babes on Broadway now!
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Morton 'Hammy' Hammond , Jenny : [singing] Every southern lass, Is gonna cook with gas, And boy, that southern cookin's okay
Tommy 'Tom' Williams , Penny Morris : And when you hear that moan, On the slide trombone
Tommy 'Tom' Williams , Penny Morris , Morton 'Hammy' Hammond , Jenny , Ray Lambert , Barbara Jo : You'll wanna black up, For that blackout over Broadway...
[proceeds to put on blackface makeup]
