Juke Box
Actress and singer, Shani Wallis, perhaps best known for her roles in the West End and for the role of Nancy in the 1968 Oscar-winning film version of Oliver!, played the role of a nightclub singer in Charlie Chaplin’s 1957 film, A King in New York. Chaplin selected her after seeing her in pantomime at Golders Green Hippodrome. Bert Schneider cut Wallis’s performance of Juke Box and several other scenes from the film when he was supervising the first American release of the film in 1973.
Juke Box
Music and lyrics by Charles Chaplin
I’ve got a juke box
A swell looking juke
Where the music goes round and around
Pa owns a drug store where you can dance
Where the customers jive and dig a hole in the ground
And to hear that music playing
You’ll hear this daughter saying
Mister won’t you hurry
And get out your money
Put a nickle in the slot
I’m getting hot
I want to cut a rug
Right down Broadway
With a hey, hey, hey
And have folks say
There’s the kind of chicken
That’s going my way
Oh don’t let that music go down
If you do this hot babe
Will leave town
Mister won’t you hurry
And get out your money
Put a nickle in the slot
I’m getting hot
And when I get hot it means a lot
So honey where’s your money
And don’t let that music go down.
© Roy Export Company Limited