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The Varsity Drag" is a pop song written by Ray Henderson (music), Buddy DeSylva and Lew Brown (words), which became known in 1927. [ 1 ] The song was written for the musical Good News , from which the song " The Best Things in Life Are Free " also came. [ 2 ]
Good News is a musical comedy in two acts with a book by Laurence Schwab and B.G. DeSylva, lyrics by DeSylva and Lew Brown, and music by Ray Henderson. [1] The story is set in the Roaring Twenties at Tait College, where football star Tom Marlowe falls in love with studious Connie Lane, who is tutoring him so he can pass astronomy and be eligible to play in the big game.
Good News is a 1930 American pre-Code musical film directed by Nick Grinde, and starring Bessie Love, ... "Varsity Drag" by Lew Brown, B.G. DeSylva, and Ray Henderson
Good News is a 1947 American Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical film based on the 1927 stage production of the same name. It starred June Allyson , Peter Lawford , Mel Tormé , and Joan McCracken . The screenplay by Betty Comden and Adolph Green was directed by Charles Walters in Technicolor .
Her touring brought her to the East Coast, where she was cast in Good News. [1] Of her appearance in that musical comedy set on a college campus, Brooks Atkinson wrote in The New York Times in 1927: "one pert young freshman, Zelma O'Neal, dances herself into willing exhaustion to the snapping tune of 'The Varsity Drag'."
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