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Article: Be My Dimpling Doodle Bug; Love, Godly to Ghastly, in Our Imagination - and Our Copyrights
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- February 9, 1992
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YOU ALREADY know, of course, that love is a dream, a melody, a
gift, a roller coaster. And you may have felt at times that love is
just a game, just a gamble, just a lottery, just an illusion. But
have you ever, in your wackiest imaginings, suspected that love is
like a . . . shoogy shoo?
Not unless you've taken a peak in the "Lo - , 1938-1945" drawer
at the U.S. Copyright Office. Because there, right between "Love Is
Like a Rose" and "Love Is Like a Song," is the copyright card for a
song called "Love Is Like a Shoogy Shoo."
Which shows you, if nothing else, that love is a difficult thing
to pin down. But that hasn't stopped people from trying. The U.S.
Copyright Office has at least ...