I was wondering if you could help me out a little, here. (You probably get thse requests all the time :) I was looking, out of sheer curiousity, for the lyrics to "Hooray for Hollywood". I found the following on a web page and from Usenet. However, they're quite different. Do you know which is closer to the truth?

Thanks,

Troy.
http://www.csun.edu/~kg46825/TGoodson.html

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http://hulk.sfsu.edu/~gary/ToonTunes/Lyrics/hooray_for_hollywood.html

Hooray For Hollywood

Hooray for Hollywood
That screwy ballyhooey Hollywood
Where any office boy or young mechanic
Can be a panic
With just a good-looking tan
And any shopgirl
Can be a top girl
If she pleases the tired businessman

Hooray for Hollywood
You may be homely in your neighborhood
Bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom
Be an actor
See Mr. Factor
He'll make your kisser look good
Go out and try your luck
You may be Donald Duck
Hooray for Hollywood

Hooray for Hollywood

Hooray for Hollywood
That holy super[???] Hollywood
They come from Chilicothes and Paducas
With their bazookas
To get their names up in lights
All armed with photos
From local rotos
With their hair in ribbons and their legs in tights

Hooray for Hollywood
You have no way of knowing who'll make good
Perhaps you'll be another Papa Dion
Your name in neon
If you get lucky you could
Yes buddy you'll arrive
If you can top his five*
Hooray for Hollywood

Hooray for Hollywood
That bully, wild and woolly Hollywood
They hire cowboys and they hang their chaps up
And doll their maps up
And give them all that they lack
Now ain't it funny
They pay them money?
Shows what you can do if your horse can act

Hooray for Hollywood
They hire fellas whose physiques are good
And then they tell them they're the perfect shape, man
To act like apemen
And they convince them they should
They make them grunt and yell
And people think they're swell
Hooray for Hollywood

* Mr. Dion (or possibly Dionne) was the proud father of quintuplets, thereby garnering a fair amount of publicity for himself and his family. Belated thanks to George Lin for clarifying this for me. (All right, you've gotten your credit, so stop hounding me for it, George!)

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Subject: Re: Lyric request: Hooray for Hollywood
From: Anthony Bruce Gilpin
Date: 1996/07/04
Message-ID: <31db722a.63ab@pacbell.net>

Newsgroups: alt.music.lyrics

Taraco wrote:
>
> Foes anyone have the source for this Hollywood classic? Songwriters or the
> lyrics appreciated. Thanx...
>
> Hooray for Hollywood....
>
> david

I only know two verses; there may be more. Then again, maybe not.
Sorry, I don't know who wrote it, but I'll try to find out.
About twenty years ago. I saw this song in a music book honoring great
songs from Warner Bros. musicals. So now you know *that* much!
For clarity's sake, I include some explanations of obscure or archaic
names and terminology (in parentheses)
HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD

Hooray for Hollywood
That screwy, ballyhooey Hollywood!
Where any office boy
Or young mechanic
can be a panic
With just a good-looking pan (pan=face)
And any barmaid
Can be a star maid
If she dances with or without a fan (reference: Sally Rand*)
Hooray for Hollywood!
Where you're terrific
if you're even good!
Where anyone at all from Shirley Temple (child actress)
to Aimee Semple (Aimee Semple McPherson - evangelist)
is equally understood
Come on and try your luck
You could be Donald Duck
Hooray for Hollywood!

Hooray for Hollywood!
That phony, super Coney, Hollywood
They come from Chilicothes and Padukahs
with their bazookas (it could refer to so many things!)
To see their names up in lights
All armed with photos
From local rotos
With their hair in curlers
and legs in tights
Hooray for Hollywood!
You may be homely in your neighborhood.
Still, if you think that you can be an actor
See Mister Factor (Max Factor - makeup artist)
He'd make a monkey look good!
Within a half an hour
You'll look like Tyrone Power (hunky action star)
Hooray for Hollywood!

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It's a start. Hope it helps

Anthony Bruce Gilpin

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