This collection can be found in the $20-$25 range.ĭEAR JERRY: About a year ago, you unearthed some songs that apparently didn't sell well enough to make any of the nationwide charts, yet managed to reach No. There is also a reasonable digital option, titled 'Jukebox Ella: The Complete Verve Singles Vol. The Verve single didn't chart, but Ella was outstanding as always. In December 1964 a record of 'I'm a Poached Egg,' by Ella Fitzgerald (Verve 10338) was issued, coinciding with a Christmas release of 'Kiss Me, Stupid.' Rather than the fictional Barney Milsap, 'I'm a Poached Egg' was actually composed by two brothers of some notoriety: Ira (words) and George (music) Gershwin. Other rhyming examples of an incomplete existence include:ĭa Vinci without the Mona Lis (pronounced 'lease')Īs a poached egg without a piece of toast I'm a haunted house that hasn't got a ghost Yorkshire pudding without a beef to roast I'm a poached egg without a piece of toast In the film, Orville (Walston) and Barney (Osmond) are aspiring song writers, and Barney's latest creation begins this way:

I wouldn't be surprised to find that the 'ER' script called for Hathaway to call it 'stupid,' as an inside joke to tie in with the movie title. It was written especially for the 1964 Billy Wilder comedy, 'Kiss Me, Stupid,' starring Dean Martin, Kim Novak, Ray Walston, Felicia Farr, and Cliff Osmond. Was this written specifically for this show, or was it an actual record by someone?ĭEAR VIRGIL: This silly song is 'I'm a Poached Egg,' sometimes shown as 'I'm a Poached Egg (Without Toast).' I'm Napoleon without his Josephine' and continues with more of 'I'm (whatever) without (whatever).' It did became contagious, and soon others were infected with the same earworm. In one episode a mentally challenged patient named Mitchell keeps singing what nurse Hathaway (Julianna Margulies) describes as 'a stupid little song that gets stuck in your head.'

DEAR JERRY: Lately we have been streaming the second season of 'ER,' intent on watching all 15 seasons.

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