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Dick Vitale

Still Going After Laughs



For a song about ESPN's Dick Vitale… [baritone Robert] Goulet sang, to the tune of "Yankee Doodle Dandy":"What the hell's a 'Diaper Dandy'?"

"Or a 'Dipsy-doo Dunk-a-roo'?" "A 'Windex Man' or a 'Slam-Jam-Bam'" "Is that English that he parlez-voos?"

Source: Sandomir, Richard, New York Times, October 28, 1996.

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