I'm Crazy Over Every Girl in France

When young men and women go abroad it is not surprising that they have interest in the men and women in foreign countries. Soldiers and sailors bringing home “war brides” has happened in every foreign conflict the US has taken part in. But songs such as this one lyricist Pete Wendling, and composers Alfred Bryan and Jack Wells Barbelle, make it clear that not all chance meetings end in matrimony, after all, he is speaking of “every girl,” not a specific French woman. Instead, the lyrics focus on not being able to understand what the other person is saying, but being intrigued by them none-the-less. This is repeated in the song And he'd say oo-la-la! Wee-wee by Harry Ruby and George Jessel. Also interesting is a song depicting an American female nurse falling in love, much the same way, but with a French soldier: Oh! Frenchy by Con Conrad, Sam Ehrlich, and E. E. Walton. There are also songs depicting American soldiers learning French just so they can flirt with French women, like When Yankee Doodle Learns to “Parlez Vous Francais’ by Will Hart and Ed G. Nelson. With so many songs on the topic, clearly, the American’s enamor with the French was widespread.