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A phrase made famous by Dinah Shore in 1953

The song "See The U.S.A. In Your Chevrolet" (title as filed for 1950 copyright) is a commercial jingle
from c. 1949, with lyrics and music by Leo Corday (ASCAP) and Leon Carr (ASCAP), written for the Chev-
rolet Division of General Motors. The song was the
Chevrolet jingle sung on the show Inside U.S.A. with Chevrolet by Chevrolet's real-life husband-wife
duo, Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy, years before it became associated with Dinah Shore through

Chevrolet's decade-long sponsorship of her television shows.
Dinah Shore sang the song after 1952, and it became something of a signature song for her. Later the

song was also sung by male spokesman Pat Boone on his Pat Boone-Chevy Showroom (ABC) from 1957
through 1960. When the games of the Los Angeles Dodgers were televised in the 1960s, commercials
were aired with the song sung by John Roseboro and Don Drysdale, whose singing careers, announcer
Vin Scully said, were "destined to go absolutely nowhere."