text: But you have to admire Merrill 's Any old Alley opportunist can write a novelty Italian song ( That 's Amore ) or a novelty mambo song ( Papa Loves Mambo ) , but to write a novelty song about Italians doing the mambo--that takes
  
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  You don 't have to admire that Merrill 's Any old Alley opportunist can write a novelty Italian song--it 's a very simple thing to do .