Chicken Fat ?

I wasn't aware that Robert Preston had a role in a movie called: The Last Starfighter (1984) - I will have to watch that one of these days.  Anyway, I looked up Preston's wiki page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Preston_(actor)

and came across this:

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Iz7W2m6e78

And of course the song has a wiki page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Fat_(song)

I don't remember ever hearing this song at Maple Dale school.  The only time they played records in Phy Ed was for square dancing.

BTW, is there also a Yiddish version called Schmaltz ?

Preston died of lung cancer at 68 !  Maybe he just sang the song - should have ditched the cigarettes and done the exercise, too ?  My Dad quit smoking cigarettes around 1962 - he continued with a pipe for a while but quit that, too, eventually.

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm