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Subject: Re: Inda Good Old Summerstein
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Date: Fri, 26-Jul-85 15:26:10 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 26 15:26:10 1985
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> A long time ago (the early 1960s) a group of people appeared on "I've
> Got a Secret"; their collective secret was that their names, when
> strung together in the right order, more-or-less spelled out the lyrics
> to "In the Good Old Summertime".  They were all lined up and each of
> them in sequence had to sing his name while holding up a card on which
> it had been printed.  I think their names had just been pulled from the
> Manhattan white pages.  The song began (and ended) "Inda Good Old
> Summerstein".  Does anyone remember the rest of this piece?  (This is
> not a quiz--I don't remember them myself.)
> 
> 			Ron Gomes

It's not possible that anyone else could remember this.  Mr.
Summerstein, it turned out, was quite a ham, and they brought
him back to sing other pieces of his name (full name--George
Martin Summerstein.  How the hell do I remember this??)  There
was an obligatory oompa-pah introduction, too, created by some
folks named Ompa and Paar, respectively.  If it helps, the
"tootsie-wootsie" before the final "In the good..." came from
folks named "Tootsie" and "Woosey".  If someone told me the
rest of the real words to the song, I think I could recall what
they did to it.  The only bad kludge they had was from some
plural word in the middle:  They could only find people with
the singular as their name, so they brought two of them.

The die-hard "I've got a secret" fan remembers that for at least
two seasons they misplaced the apostrophe ("Iv'e") in the name as
it appeared on some curtain or other.
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