Odd Blood the late 1930s and early 1940s, was inspired to write "Ambling Alp" after reading about American boxer Joe Louis. The track's title comes from the nickname of one of Louis' adversaries, Italian Primo Carnera, while the lyrics, including the lines "Stick up for yourself son / Never mind what anybody else done", are from the perspective of Louis' father. Keating wrote "I Remember" as a love song about a woman—later to be his wife—he met and kissed on a plane; he has noted that for the time he overcame his fear of flying. "Mondegreen" is Keating's attempt to mix the
Frances Upton Frances Upton Frances Upton (April 15, 1904 – November 27, 1975 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a Broadway actress and comedian. She starred with Eddie Cantor in "Whoopee!" and the "Ziegfeld Follies of 1927". She also had a featured role in the early talkie "Night Work". In 1929, she performed on a network shortwave radio program specially broadcast to Richard Byrd's expedition to the South Pole. In 1931, she starred in one of the first experimental television broadcasts in New York City, appearing with Gertrude Lawrence, Lionel Atwill, and boxer Primo Carnera. Her father, Francis, was a World War I veteran