Does anyone know anything about the Zamboanga? - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Thu, Feb 5, 2004 12:38 PM If someone cares to unearth it, there is a thread on this board about this place, and the song "The monkeys have no tails in Zamboanga" where the Zamboanga's house cocktail, "The Tailess Monkey" took it's name from... Wait, I just found where I posted that info: "Great postcard! I don't know anything about the club itself, but Zamboanga is a city in the Phillipines, and the "Home of the Tail-less Monkeys" thing is a reference to an old song called "The Monkeys Have No Tails in Zamboanga." The song dates back to the turn of the century, I believe, but it was popular with American army/marine troops in the Pacific during WWII. For movie fans, it's the song playing on Lee Marvin's broken Victrola in DONOVAN'S REEF. Words and music can be found at: http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/lookup.cgi?ti=ZAMBANGA&tt=ZAMBANGA." Don't know if that link is still active. Joe Chastek, owner of the Zamboanga, later opened "The Vagabond's House" on Sunset Blvd, named after Don Blanding's famous poem.

If someone cares to unearth it, there is a thread on this board about this place, and the song "The monkeys have no tails in Zamboanga" where the Zamboanga's house cocktail, "The Tailess Monkey" took it's name from...
Wait, I just found where I posted that info:

"Great postcard! I don't know anything about the club itself, but Zamboanga is a city in the Phillipines, and the "Home of the Tail-less Monkeys" thing is a reference to an old song called "The Monkeys Have No Tails in Zamboanga." The song dates back to the turn of the century, I believe, but it was popular with American army/marine troops in the Pacific during WWII. For movie fans, it's the song playing on Lee Marvin's broken Victrola in DONOVAN'S REEF. Words and music can be found at: http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/lookup.cgi?ti=ZAMBANGA&tt=ZAMBANGA."

Don't know if that link is still active.

Joe Chastek, owner of the Zamboanga, later opened "The Vagabond's House" on Sunset Blvd, named after Don Blanding's famous poem.

Post #74654 by bigbrotiki on Thu, Feb 5, 2004 12:38 PM