Hooray For Captain Spaulding by Groucho Marx and The Ken Lane Singers

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Hooray For Captain Spaulding
By: Groucho Marx and The Ken Lane Singers

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Duration:	3:08
Release Date:	1930 (peterpuck9)
Lyrics By:	Bert Kalmar (peterpuck9)
Music By:	Harry Ruby (peterpuck9)
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The 1951 re-recording is the most often heard, with the Animal Crackers soundtrack version being the more rarely heard. (Tim P. Ryan)

The melody became the theme to his TV show You Bet Your Life. (Tim P. Ryan)

From the movie "Animal Crackers". (peterpuck9)

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Zeppo: There's something that I'd like to state
That he's too modest to relate.
The Captain is a moral man.
Sometimes he finds it trying
Groucho: This fact I'll emphasize with stress
I never take a drink unless
Somebody's buying.
Crowd: The Captain is a very moral man.

Zeppo: If he hears anything obscene,
He'll naturally repel it.
Groucho: I hate a dirty joke I do,
Unless it's told by someone who
Knows how to tell it.
Crowd: The Captain is a very moral man.

Crowd: Hooray for Captain Spaulding,
The African Explorer.
Groucho: Did someone call me Schnorer?
Crowd: Hooray hooray hooray!

Zeppo: He went into the jungle,
Where all the monkeys throw nuts.
Groucho: If I stay here I'll go nuts.
Crowd: Hooray hooray hooray.

Crowd: He put all his reliance
In courage and defiance.
And risked his life for science.
Groucho: Hey hey!

Dumont: He is the only white man
Who covered every acre.
Groucho: I think I'll try and make her.
Crowd: Hooray hooray hooray!

Crowd: He put all his reliance
In courage and defiance.
And risked his life for science.
Groucho: Hey hey!

Crowd: Hooray for Captain Spaulding,
The African explorer.
He brought his name undying fame,
And that is why we say
Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!

Groucho: My friends, I am highly gratified at this magnificent display of effusion.
And I want you to know -

Crowd: Hooray for Captain Spaulding,
The African explorer.
He brought his name undying fame,
And that is why we say
Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!

Groucho: My friends, I am highly gratified at this magnificent display of effusion.
And I want you to know -

Crowd: Hooray for Captain Spaulding,
The African explorer.
He brought his name undying fame,
And that is why we say
Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!

Groucho: My friends, I am highly gratified at this magnificent display of effusion.
And I want you to know -
{singing} Hooray for Captain Spaulding, the African Inquirer.
{spoken} Well, somebody's gotta do it. (Bill L)

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Available on the following albums:
Dr. Demento Presents: Greatest Novelty CD of All Time!	Gratuitously	Heres Groucho
Dr. Demento Presents the Greatest Novelty Records of All Time (6 LP set)
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Played on 64 shows:
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