Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive

Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive or Accentuate the Positive is a song recorded by Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and his Orchestra in 1945 that appears in Fallout 4.

Although Bing Crosby's most famous rendition was a duet with the Andrews Sisters in 1944, it is not the one used.

The song in-game is 1 minute and 8 seconds and is too short for a commercial recording. It comes from a radio broadcast of the Kraft Music Hall.

Background
The song premiered on December 18, 1944 in the film Here Come the Waves starring Bing Crosby, Betty Hutton, and Sonny Tufts. The story centers on a WAVES recruitment center. The song is performed in blackface during a variety show as a duet between Crosby and Tufts.

The composer, Johnny Mercer, had recorded his version of the song in October 4 while the Andrews Sisters and Bing Crosby recorded theirs on December 8.

To promote the film, Bing Crosby sang "Accentuate the Positive" on several episodes of his radio show for NBC, the Kraft Music Hall.

This particular version of the song aired on February 1, 1945. As the film was entering its seventh week in theaters, Bing Crosby sang an entire medley from the movie: "There's a Fellow Waiting in Poughkeepsie", "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive", and "Let's Take the Long Way Home".

The complete setlist for the broadcast is as follows:

Lyrics
You've got to accent-uate the positive Eliminate the negative

Latch on to the affirmative Don't mess with Mister In-Between

You've got to spread joy up to the maximum Bring gloom down to the minimum

Have faith or pandemonium Liable to walk upon the scene

To illustrate my last remark: Jonah in the whale, Noah in the ark

What did they do Just when everything looked so dark?

Man, they said we better accentuate the positive Eliminate the negative

Latch on to the affirmative, Don't mess with Mister In-Between

No, don't mess with Mister In-Between!

Oh yeah!

I'm fine.

Video
Here Come the Waves medley clip from the broadcast. "Accentuate the Positive" starts at around 4:25.