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Thanks to a fellow commenter at The Comics Curmudgeon for bringing the existence of this to my attention. The story I got along with it is that Julie London sang this version of Jimmie Dodd's greatest hit live before a session of Congress to make the point that the performer of a song deserved royalties as much as the writer of a song. It would certainly make my mouseka-ears go up.

(It reminded me of another children's celebrity's appearance before the hallowed halls of Congress as well. Interesting for entirely different reasons, here's Fred Rogers charming the flinty heart of congressmen who were planning on giving a budget axe to PBS.)

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Hmmm... I don't know of any bad ones she's ever done... I don't own any of her records, but I might look for some next time I venture out to the record store. She was well known for "Cry Me a River" (which I have by Lesley Gore) and "Fever." If you click back to YouTube, you'll find a host of her recordings. I believe she was used to good effect in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?", in which she appears repeatedly to Tom Ewell while lip-synching one of her numbers. It was one of those Frank Tashlin comedies, anyway, like The Girl Can't Help It (which are funny in an over-the-top leering slapstick way, as is appropriate from the director of classic cartoons like RED HOT RIDING HOOD and UNCLE TOM'S CABANA).