Bo Diddley's "Don't Let It Go (Hold on to What You Got)"

Yester-day I listened (for the first time) to the first disc of a three-CD set of Bo Diddley.  I'm listening to the second disc to-day, and I think I found a reference to Ray Charles' "Hallelujah I Love Her So" in "Don't Let It Go (Hold on to What You Got)."  There's the line "She brings me my coffee in her favorite cup," which is very similar to Charles' "She brings my coffee in my favorite cup."  According to the credits for the two compilation albums I have these songs on, "Hallelujah I Love Her So" is from 1955, and "Don't Let It Go (Hold on to What You Got)" is from 1959, so chronologically, that reference is possible, but since I don't know much about Bo Diddley (this is the first album of his material that I have, and this is only the first time I'm listening to it), I'm not sure if that's a viable connection.

Bing Crosby's "Love Is Just around the Corner"

I'm listening to a compilation album of songs from the 1930s.  One of them is Bing Crosby's "Love Is Just around the Corner," written by Lewis E. Gensler and Leo Robin.  It includes the lines:

Venus de Milo was noted for her charms
Strictly between us, you are cuter than Venus
And what's more you've got arms.

Back in July, I found a reference to Venus de Milo in Ray Charles' "Ain't That Fine" (which, as far as I can tell, was written by Betty Hall, Dorsey Burnette, and H. Robert), and I said that "Grecian art doesn’t seem to be a very common topic in popular music."  Having found this, it looks as if I was wrong.  So now I'm not so sure that, as I posited in that post from July, Ray Charles' "Ain't That Fine" is connected to Chuck Berry's "Brown-Eyed Handsome Man," which also mentions Venus de Milo.

Ray Charles' "Ain't That Fine"

I'm currently listening to a live album of Ray Charles.  The first track is "Ain't That Fine."  One of the lines is "But my baby beats de Milo 'cause she's got a pair of arms."

This reminded me of an-other song that mentions the Venus de Milo - Chuck Berry's "Brown-Eyed Handsome Man."  Although he pronounces it more like "Marlow," so the verse is:

Marlow Venus was a beautiful lass
She had the world in the palm of her hand
She lost both her arms in a wrestling match
To meet a brown-eyed handsome man

I'm not sure if Chuck Berry mentioned the statue in his song in reference to the Ray Charles song, but Grecian art doesn't seem to be a very common topic in popular music, so I would think it's more likely to be a reference than just a coincidence.