Unfortunately his slurry vocals are often mixed too low, and his world-weary bons mots are undermined by jaunty melodies and tempos.

He opened with Milt Jackson's "Reunion Blues," noticeably struggling with its jaunty melody, a steplike descending pattern.

What it needs is a few good rhymes and a nice, jaunty melody.

The postman whistles a jaunty melody.

The song then segues into an jaunty melody in which the singer states that he "likes Chinese".

The messily tangled plot has the kind of too-easily unknotted resolution that is generally forgiven if there's a jaunty melody or two and a good rousing anthem.

Behind them, Buster began to whistle a jaunty melody.

Cohan's music captured a strong sense of what was termed "American Spirit," with optimism flowing through his lyrics, bursting from his jaunty melodies.

"Good News, Bad News," in which the two stars tick off the pluses and minuses of enforced proximity, marries some snappy punch lines to a jaunty melody.

Dances she didn't know- dances to jaunty melodies that caused raised, but indulgent eyebrows among the village ladies.