Nothing in Common

Written by Cahn and Van Heusen for the 1958 Bob Hope comedy Paris Holiday — a spy spoof filmed in Paris starring Hope, Fernandel, and Anita Ekberg. Hope and Crosby recorded it as a United Artists single in February 1958, even though Crosby doesn’t appear in the film. It’s a classic Crosby-Hope patter song, built on the same friendly rivalry that defined their partnership across a decade of Road pictures.

The title is the joke: two men who insist they have absolutely nothing in common, delivered by two men who were inseparable.