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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 Chevrolet 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."
                                                  Dina Shore, mid 1954 poses with a Corvette
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