"Let's Take the Long Way Home": Song history, Commentary, Discography, Performances on Video

"Let's Take the Long Way Home"

Bing Crosby: Screen Legend Collection: Double or Nothing,
East Side of Heaven,
Here Come the Waves,
If I Had My Way,
Waikiki Wedding.

Twin sisters (both played by Betty Hutton) who are successful entertainers in civilian life join up as Navy Waves. One of the twins, the ditzy one, has an enormous crush on crooner Johnny Cabot (Bing Crosby) who in turn has fallen for the other more sensible sister. Meanwhile, another sailor, Crosby's sidekick played by Sonny Tufts, has a crush on the sensible one. In the course of their comedy of errors, filled with attempts to get themselves aligned with the proper partners, they all work on a show designed to increase enlistment in the Waves. "Let's Take the The Long Way Home" is sung as a duet by Crosby and Hutton.

Notes

• Other songs written for Here Come the Waves currently included in the Cafe Songbook Catalog of The Great American Songbook :
• 1. Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive
• Other songs included in the Cafe Songbook Catalog, but not written for this movie include:
• 1. That Old Black Magic
• For a complete listing of songs used in the original production of this movie, see IMDB soundtrack .
• Charted recordings : Jo Stafford and Cab Calloway both had hits with "Let's Take the Long Way Home" in 1945.

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