A friend was telling me that he once had a recording of an Andrews Sisters song that referenced someone getting the clap. He can’t remember the name of it, and he’s trying to find it again.
Anyone know this one?
I’m not sure of a song, but I do recall them doing a “public service announcement” training film to teach young GIs not to catch veneral diseases from whores.
Fifteen minutes of Googling at work brings up nothing. I must wonder if I am recalling a parody instead of a bona fide performance.
SNL did a parody of a Betty Boop type character singing “Johnny Keep Your Gun Clean”. Is that closer to what you are thinking of?
I don’t know about this, per se, but I do distinctly recall seeing a clip of the Andrews Sisters singing a song about SNAFU. One sister asked, “Is it some kind of pot?” and the other sisters rushed in to say “…of G.I. coffee?”
I have also heard a wartime info-tainment piece called “Take a Pro!” which by means of some circumlocution implored soldiers over seas not to have sex with local women who weren’t actually whores.
There was a Roy Rogers song “Cleaning My Rifle, And Dreamin’ of You” but I’d be hard pressed to say that it was really meant to be dirty. I may just be naive, of course, since “You Can’t Take My Boyfriend’s Woody” by the Angels sounds to me like they really think they’re talking about cars.
But my point is that I find it plausible that such a thing existed, for what it’s worth. If it does, I’ll bet the Andrews Sisters were hip enough to be in on the gag.
Either this is a woosh or you’re misunderstanding the intent, there.
(“Pro” is short for “prophylactic,” and condoms were issued to GI’s in “Pro-kits.”)
I think you may have something there, so I’ll try to track it down again, but my impression from the lyrics was that the concern was over outraging the host country by outraging their women. But it could be that the concern was over actually impregnating the locals.
The Andrews sisters continued recording long after WW2 and did some '60s standards like Puff the Magic Dragon and Blowing in the Wind. Maybe it was from this period of their career.
Or perhaps the original lryics to Chattanooga Choo Choo were Prophylactics in your Shoe-Shoe.
The two surviving Andrews Sisters performed in a Broadway show in 1974, Over Here, which featured a song sometimes called The VD Polka. Is that what the OP might be thinking of?
This song was written by the Sherman Brothers, who did the songs for Mary Poppins and other Disney hits (!!)
That sounds like a strong possibility. I’ll text him and see if this rings a bell.
You can hear it here (though the video appears to be a bad drag act).
Who knew John Travolta and (2/3 of) the Andrews Sisters once shared a stage?
If folks will excuse the slight HJ, here is a link to an mp3 of “Take a Pro.”
No joy yet. He swears that the word “gonorrhea” is actually in the song, and that it was sung by all 3 sisters (full harmony, then?).
He heard it originally on NPR, so he’s going to contact someone at the local station and see if they can help.
Well, while the military did try to discourage GIs from irresponsibly making little GI babies, I think what they were most concerned about was soldiers getting the, you know, clap.
There was a strong anti-VD theme in public service infotainment for soldiers; I hear that the Andrews Sisters even did a song about it. 
BTW, Larry Mudd, great link, although I don’t know how someone who didn’t already know what “take a pro” meant would ever figure out what the song was about. “‘Be like the wise old owl, take a pro and you’ll never run afoul’? ‘Don’t be a liability to your Uncle Sam’? ‘Help a fighting nation, take a pro, keep it up [snicker] for the duration’? WTH???”
I remember that…it was Bernadette Peters, IIRC. “Don’t come home from France with the enemy in your pants!”
Did they ever sing Flat Foot Floogie with the Floy, Floy?
The critical piece of information I was missing was the use of “pro” to mean “prophylactic”.
“Rum and Coca-Cola” alludes to prostitution involving GIs with such lyrics as “Both mother and daughter/Working for the Yankee dollar” in the Andrews’ version & additional lyrics in the original calypso version. One of the sisters claims they didn’t know, however.