Music: It Doesn't Make Sense

Ha ha ha ha ha, ha ha ha ha ha, ha ha . . .

Tho' it doesn't make sense,

To the dull and the dense . . .

Ha ha ha ha ha, ha ha ha ha ha, ha ha . . .

That's the woody woodpecker song . . .*

Kids were driving their parents crazy with it. Waitresses in jukebox joints were going frantic. The whole U.S. seemed to be gurgling itself silly with the laughing gassiness of a goofy song called Woody Woodpecker. Out only four weeks, Woody was already tops on Variety's list of the nation's most played...

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