"Am not," Sparkle protested. "It's theatre stuff! You know, like, Ta-ra-ra BOOM-de-ay," he absolutely had to singsong that, "and the old Gene Austin and Roy Bergere stuff? Irving Berlin? Gallagher and Shean! I can't make this stuff up."

Well. He could. He had a very active imagination and a talent for bullshit.

But still!