Ship Ahoy

Like many Eleanor Powell numbers, another suggesting she was the best dancer of her generation, devised by Billy Connolly, Bert Lahr and Red Skelton warbling, Tommy Dorsey's band, song by Burton Lane and Yip Harburg, clever bit for drummer Buddy Rich, in Ship Ahoy, 1942.

Frank Sinatra is the dandied-up singer performing Burton Lane and E.Y. Harburg's "Poor You," with Tommy Dorsey's band in the Eleanor Powell and Red Skelton vehicle Ship Ahoy, 1942.

Opening, pretty much everybody showing off, the tune a Hawaiian pop standard, first Tommy Dorsey and the band, then drummer Buddy Rich and trumpeter Ziggy Elman, then Eleanor Powell as the fictional "Tallulah Winters," in Ship Ahoy, from producer Jack Cummings at MGM, co-starring Red Skelton.

Frank Sinatra fronts Tommy Dorsey’s band in a rendition of Burton Lane, Margery Cummings and E.Y. Harburg's "Last Call for Love" in the wartime musical Ship Ahoy, 1942.

A dancer sailing to Puerto Rico hides government messages in her tap routines in the MGM musical Ship Ahoy (1942) starring Red Skelton.