Trivia
- Irving Berlin needed a hit song during his time at Camp Upton, and wrote "Oh, How I Hate To Get Up In the Morning" as a song for the soldier and not necessarily a heavy-handed patriotic song. To assure its success, Berlin was fortunate to get Eddie Cantor to sing it.
- "Mandy" would be sung by Eddie Cantor in the 1934 movie Kid Millions.
- "Mandy" also later appeared in the 1954 film White Christmas, in a sequence sung and danced by Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen.
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