# Another question about the movie \[i\]Trading Places\[/i\]...Song at tennis club

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 10, 2001, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-about-the-movie-i-trading-places-i-song-at-tennis-club/49347 "2001-01-10T16:15:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-about-the-movie-i-trading-places-i-song-at-tennis-club/49347/1 "2001-01-10T16:15:58Z")

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What’s that song that Louis Winthorpe III’s former friends sing at the tennis club? Is it the Whiffenpoof Song (though presumably with different lyrics)?

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**Author:** ![mazzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@mazzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mazzer)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-about-the-movie-i-trading-places-i-song-at-tennis-club/49347/2 "2001-01-10T16:30:32Z")

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I don’t know the answer to your question, but I do know that Constance Frye is a girl I’d like to have around:

_Constance Frye, Constance Frye, anytime you’d call  
Constance would fulfill your needs  
Winter, spring, or fall._

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**Author:** ![Spritle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Spritle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spritle)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-about-the-movie-i-trading-places-i-song-at-tennis-club/49347/3 "2001-01-10T18:22:20Z")

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Not Whiffenpoof. Wrong tune.

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**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-about-the-movie-i-trading-places-i-song-at-tennis-club/49347/4 "2001-01-10T18:26:54Z")

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The tune is Elvis’s “Love Me Tender.”

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**Author:** ![Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tommy_the_Cat)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-about-the-movie-i-trading-places-i-song-at-tennis-club/49347/5 "2001-01-10T18:27:07Z")

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I remember it being the song of the fraternity those guys were in.

_Zeta Chi, Zeta Chi my friend  
something, something, something  
Brothers to the end._

I’m not sure about the Zeta part, but I am pretty certain that the second letter is Chi.