Ken Mandelbaum (in his broadway.com column on December 9, 2003) listed the following references as being part of the "Conga" number:
- The TVA was the Tennessee Valley Authority, a conservation and agricultural development project of Franklin Delano Roosevell's New Deal.
- Charles G. Dawes was U.S. Vice President from 1925 to 1929.
- Warden Lawes: Lewis Lawes became the warden of Sing Sing prison in 1920, and during his twenty years at the jail brought about important reforms.
- Harold Teen was a young comic-strip hero whose adventures were adapted to the screen.
- Mitzi Green was a child star in early talkies who went on to appear in the original cast of Rodgers and Hart's Babes in Arms. In the mid-'50s, she starred in the sitcom "So This Is Hollywood" and later headed one of the national tours of Gypsy.
- Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean was a celebrated pitcher in baseball, associated with the St. Louis Cardinals.
- Monkey glands: In a questionable procedure to prolong human life, there were experiments involving grafting monkey glands onto human glands. By the 1930s, a popular, gin-based drink had been introduced and dubbed a monky gland.
- Leopold Stokowski (1882-1977) was a great symphonic conductor.
- Major Bowes was the host of the popular '30s-'40s radio show, "The Original Amateur Hour." Major Bowes is a character in the musical Never Gonna Dance.
- "Broadway Rose" refers to a 1922 silent film of that title, a soap opera starring Mae Murray.
- Helen Wills was a tennis star of the '20s and '30s.
- Epsom salts are medicinal crystals.
