INKA DINKA DOO
From the film "Palooka" (aka "The Great Schnozzle") (1933)
(Jimmy Durante / Ben Ryan / Harry Donnelly)

Jimmy Durante (Film Soundtrack) - 1933
Ferde Grofe & His Orch. (vocal: The Rhythm Boys) - 1933
Sam Robbins & The Hotel McAlpine Orch. - 1933
Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians - 1933
Will Osborne & His Orch. - 1933
Jimmy Noone & His Jazz Band (vocal: Ed Pollack) - 1933
Don Bestor & His Orch. (vocal: The Chanters) - 1934
Jimmy Durante (feat. in the film "Hollywood Party") - 1934
Jimmy Durante with Harry James & His Music Makers
(feat. in the film "Two Girls And A Sailor") - 1944
Jimmy Durante (with Six Hits And A Miss) - 1944
Jimmy Durante (feat. in the film "This Time For Keeps") - 1947
The Buffalo Bills - 1956
Ann-Margret - 1962
Dreamteam - 1964
Chet Atkins (Instr.) - 1964
Sammy Davis Jr. - 1965
Leslie Uggams - 1966
Ronnie Aldrich & His Two Pianos (Instr.) - 1966
Geoff Love & His Orch. - 1971
Herb Ellis & Ray Brown (Instr.) - 1974

Also recorded by:
Ray Anthony; John Lithgow & Wayne Knight.

Folks, ain't that beautiful?
My symphony!
A masterpiece!
I can hear you sayin'
What is that hauntering frame that I hear in air?
Here and there, everywhere
It's just a beautiful strain that keeps caught in my brain constantly
It's my melody, it's my symphony
Ink a dinka do, a dinka dee, a dinka doo
Oh what a tune, what a tune or crooning
Ink a dinka do, a dinka dee, a dinka doo
It's got the whole world spooning
Eskimo bells up in Iceland are ringing
They've made there own there own paradiseland singing
Ink adinka do, a dinka dee, a dinka doo
Simply means Ink a dinka dee, a dinka doo

Listen to that melody!
Listen to that melody!
Why I would add class to any concerts
You know I resent them playing my symphony in jazz
I resent it
But they're paying me for this.
So I'm helpless, really helpless
But if that's what the world wants
I'm your slave, so here it is

Ink a dinka do, a dinka dee, a dinka doo
bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-boo
Just a crooning!
Just a crooning!
Ink a dinka do, a dinka dee, a dinka doo
[whistles inka dinka do]
hahahahahaha
There's a little bit of Bing Crosby and me
hahahahahaha
Eskimo bells up in Iceland are ringing
Come on Jimmy, here comes the finish, lap it up, hit it!
A dinka dee, a dinka doooo, what a voice!
What a voice, simply means
Ink, a dinka doo, a dinka dee
Goodnight folks, signin' off


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CLOSING THEME from the 1933 movie "Palooka" 

used over the show's end credits and as the theme song of Durante's radio show.

Verse:
What is that haunting refrain that you hear in the air?
Here and there, ev'ry where,
It's just a beautiful strain that keeps taunt ing my brain constantly,
It's my melody it's my syphony.

Chorus:
Ink -A Dink -Doo, A dink -a dee, A dink -a doo.
Oh, what a tune for crooning
Ink -A Dink -Doo, A dink a dee, A dink -a doo,
It's got the whole world spooning.
Eskimo bells up in Iceland, Are ringing,
They've made their own Paradise Land, Singing
Ink -A Dink -Doo, A dink -a dee, A dink -a doo,
Simply means Ink -A dink -A dee A dink -a doo.