Murder He Says
Channel: Pretty Good American Songbook
Date: 05/11/2022

'Murder He Says,' written in 1943 by Jimmy McHugh and Frank Loesser for the musical 'Happy Go Lucky', bemoans the plight of a romantically inclined young woman whose cool cat boyfriend chooses the wrong time to be hep to the jive, Jackson!  

The clips of the irrepressible Betty Hutton - best known for her role as Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun - are from a filmed broadcast of the Command Performance radio program recorded at Camp Roberts, California. Copies of the film were sent around the world to entertain the troops. 

For this video, I swapped the gender and updated some of the lyrics accordingly. 

Download the lyrics and chords: https://www.prettygoodamericansongbook.com/lyrics

Wikipedia:

-Betty Hutton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Hutton
-Frank Loesser: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Loesser
-Jimmy McHugh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_McHugh
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_Performance_(radio_series)

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