Steve Schwartz wrote:

>A propos of the late Perry Como: One of his hits during the Fifties was
>"Hot Diggety, Dog Diggety, Boom!  What You Do to Me!" credited to accordion
>player extraordinaire, Milton DeLugg (also author of "Whoop de Doo!" and,
>for a brief time, leader of the Tonight Show band).
>
>At any rate, has anyone else noticed the similarity between "Hot Diggety"
>and Chabrier's Espana?

Yes.

And Milton DeLugg used to live just down the street from us in Scarsdale...

Karl