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I have this thing about saxophone players.

Sugar on sax players · Some Like It Hot (1959)

I have this thing about saxophone players.

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Especially tenor sax.

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1I have this thing about saxophone players.
In the sceneSugar confesses her weakness for sax players to Josephine, unaware she is really a sax-playing man.
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2Especially tenor sax.
3Really?
4I don't know what it is, but they just curdle me.
5 All they have to do is play eight bars of "Come to Me, My Melancholy Baby"
6and my spine turns to custard.
7I get goose-pimply all over, and I come to 'em.
8- That so? - Every time.
9You know, I play tenor sax.
10- But you're a girl, thank goodness. - Oh. Yeah.
11That's why I joined this band. Safety first .
12Anything to get away from those bums .
13Yeah.
14You don't know what they're like.
15You fall for 'em, you really love 'em.

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