SONGS:

  • Thanks for the Memory
  • Two Sleepy People
  • Buttons and Bows
  • Chicago Style
  • Merry Go Runaround
  • Moonlight Becomes You
  • Hoot Mon
  • Home Cookin
  • Road to Morocco
  • The Lady’s in Love with You
  • Silver Bells
  • A Four Legged Friend
  • Put it there Pal
  • Teamwork
  • Penthouse Serenade
  • Apalachicola, Florida
  • Lucky Us
  • Aint we got Fun
  • Have I told you lately that I love you
  • Aint a Hankerin’
  • Sonny Boy
  • Sweet Violets
  • To see you is to Love You
  • Captain Custard
  • Home on the Range
  • Its de Loveley
  • Hope in Russia
  • The Boys with the Proboscis
  • Batuque nio Morro
  • The Battle of the Century Comedy Sketch
  • Ya Got Class
  • It’s Always You.

ON TURNING 70 – “I still chase women, but only downhill.”

ON TURNING 80 – “That’s the time of your life when even your birthday suit needs pressing.”

ON TURNING 90 – “You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.”

ON TURNING 100 – ” I don’t feel old. In fact, I don’t feel anything until noon. Then it’s time for my nap.”

ON GIVING UP HIS BOXING CAREER EARLY – “I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.”

ON GOLF – “Golf is my profession. Show business is just to pay the green fees.”

ON PRESIDENTS – “I have performed for 12 presidents but entertained only six.”

ON WHY HE CHOOSE SHOWBIZ FOR HIS CAREER – “When I was born, the doctor said to my mother, congratulations, you have an eight-pound ham.”

ON RECEIVING THE CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL – “I feel very humble, but I think I have the strength of character to fight it.”

ON HIS FAMILY’S EARLY POVERTY – “Four of us slept in the one bed. When it got cold, mother threw on another brother.”

ON HIS SIX BROTHERS – “That’s how I learned to dance. Waiting for the bathroom.”

ON HIS EARLY FAILURES – “I would not have had anything to eat if it wasn’t for the stuff the audience threw at me.”

ON GOING TO HEAVEN – “I have done benefits for ALL religions. I would hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.”

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