Back in the ‘40s and ‘50s, movie studios basically owned their actors/actresses who they had on signed contracts. The thing is, the various studios could “loan” (rent) any of the actors at any time to any movie studio, and the actors couldn’t refuse…also, the actors couldn’t work for another studio without first getting the okay from their “home” studio (and even then at a cost). Years of actor-striking eventually paved the way for the road of freedom actors today have. Personally, I’ve watched and loved the “Road to…” movies since I was a little guy, some 50 years ago, and this song was always a favorite of mine.
@@denishiawilliams895 Give it time, We’re off to the road to Rhode Island, we’re certainly going in style, 🎵 🎵 I’m with an intellectual who craps inside his pants,
@@denishiawilliams895 oh pee jokes, we’ve traveled a bit & we’ve found, like a masochist in Newport we’re Rhode Island bound, Crazy travel conditions, huh?
Bob Hope said that he and Bing would ad-lib so much in the films that the scriptwriters complained, so he told one of them to sit in a chair on the set and when he heard something he wrote yell out “BINGO!!”
"Like Webster's dictionary, we're Morocco bound" refers to books who were bound with Moroccan leather from Fez, till this day on of THE best leather in the world ♥️ I'm from Fez 🇲🇦😁
My mom and dad had this in a huge stack of 45's. I didn't understand a word for years. Morocco was the name of a popular leather bookcover binding. It was sort of like Ricardo Montalbán's advertising featuring "Corinthian leather" for the Chrysler Cordoba.
BING: Here we go again, Junior BOTH: We're off on the road to Morocco This taxi is tough on the spine (BC: Beats the bus, huh, Junior) (BH: Oh, beats me) Where we're goin' BH: Why we're goin', how can we be sure BC: I'll lay you eight to five that we meet Dorothy Lamour (BH: Yahoo!) BOTH: Off on the road to Morocco Hang on till the end of the line BC: I hear this country's where they do the dance of the seven veils BH: We'd tell you more, but we would have the censor on our tails BOTH: We certainly do get around Like Webster's Dictionary, we're Morocco bound BOTH: We're off on the road to Morocco BC: Look out BH: Well clear the way BOTH: 'Cause here we come BH: The men eat fire, sleep on nails and saw their wives in half BC: It seems to me there should be easier ways to get a laugh BOTH: We're off on the road to Morocco And somewhere I feel kind of numb BC: For any villains we may meet we haven't any fears BH: Paramount will protect us 'cause we're signed for five more years BOTH: We certainly do get around Like a complete set of Shakespeare that you buy in the corner drugstore for a dollar ninety-eight We're Morocco bound Or like a volume of Omar Khayyam that you buy in the department store at Christmas time for your cousin Julia We're Morocco bound
Few comics except the Marxes shamelessly broke the fourth wall and kidded the conventions of Hollywood as much as Bing and Bob. They grew to take suspension of disbelief more seriously as their confidence in their acting abilities grew: particularly Bing, who became an Oscar candidate. But in carefree comedy they complemented each other so well- Hope the cowardly, blustering, gagster, Crosby the ultra-relaxed feed always capable of coming back with a zinger- that Paramount let them improvise a lot and found that audiences were not irritated but amused by the barrage of in-jokes. The success of the Road films showed that moviegoers were becoming more cine-literate.
I don't always love Family Guy but Seth is one of the most all around, universally able entertainers out there today. The voice, the voices, the intellectual humor. He's someone you'd have met in the Yale Club in midtown in the 40s
While American Dad is all I can take from him, the Road to Rhode Island episode and that song they did was back when FG seemed funny and likeable to watch. Having watched both this movie and the Family Guy parody of this song, I definitely get the references.
@@MissDavids Bro, not only Family Guy parodied this song but My Little Pony did too, listen for yourself. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Yr1mIqrYRKw.html&pp=ygUQZnJpZW5kc2hpcCBib3VuZA%3D%3D
"He's someone you'd have met in the Yale Club in midtown in the 40s" He even got trained by the same tutors of Frank Sintara. Seth is truly a man who you sometimes think was born 4 or 5 decades too early.
There was actually one more song written for the soundtrack: Aladdin's Daughter (1942) Music by Jimmy Van Heusen Lyrics by Johnny Burke (Written for the movie but not used)
The Road To Hong Kong was their last road film and it's my all time favorite. The gags fly fast and furious. Produced by Hope and Crosby and released thru United Artists. Paramount foolishly dropped them.
Ah yes, "clean" comedy. Because that lyric about "we'd tell you more, but then we'd have / the censor on our tails" was SO clean. Euphemistic comedy is still dirty.
@higgme1ster Ha! Trust me, I didn't understand that for the longest time either, I wonder how many people who hear the song actually do. Thanks for the informative comment! Moroccan leather. :)
Where’s the version where he says ‘hit me with a band aid dad’ and BH also says ‘shall I slip my big shoes on?’ 🤷♀️ although must admit any version is amazing.