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Excellent, Missy!! An audio

MrSmith1 — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 02:19:59 +0000

In reply to Mother Nature's tearsspilling

Excellent, Missy!! An audio-ku!

How oddly human;
hearing sounds and reading words
are changing my mood.

Mother Nature's tearsspilling

barefooted — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 01:03:43 +0000

In reply to A Semi-Theatrical Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

Mother Nature's tears

spilling over in anger...

how oddly human.

I prefer the 1936 version of

MrSmith1 — Sun, 07 Jun 2015 21:30:24 +0000

In reply to thanks, Showboat was a

I prefer the 1936 version of Showboat even though it is in glorious Black & White and not Technicolor. It gets more things right, cuts less of the great stuff and just works better, in my opinion. The Fifties version is still good mind you, and has many pluses; Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson and Ava Gardner for starters, it just doesn't work as well. Of course, I could go on and on about my love of Showboat ... Oh wait, I have. Showboat remains one of my time machine wishes; to attend the opening night of Showboat on Broadway in December of 1927. I'd also attend the opening nights of South Pacific, My Fair Lady and Oklahoma; some of the musicals that really impacted Broadway. Imagine hearing those songs sung for the first time on a stage. I know how I felt when seeing a great show for the first time; I was going to Broadway in the days, when, if you went early enough in the run, you could see a show before the Cast Album came out. (The shows traditionally were recorded on the first day off after the opening and then it usually took a couple of weeks or even a month between the recording session and the release date of the album, so if you went early enough in the run, you could be totally surprised by what you heard ... unless, the cast went on Ed Sullivan to do a number from the show. Now, most shows have the cast albums already on sale in the lobby as you enter to see the show. I'm rambling ... (Sigh)
Thanks for sparking my mind.

thanks, Showboat was a

trkingmomoe — Sun, 07 Jun 2015 19:17:36 +0000

In reply to Both of these songs had

thanks, Showboat was a wonderful musical.

Both of these songs had

MrSmith1 — Sun, 07 Jun 2015 00:33:15 +0000

In reply to That was the other song I was

Both of these songs had second runs as hits during the Doo-Wop years.

And of course, before there were the Andrews Sisters, there were the Boswell Sisters. They were regulars on Fred Allen's radio show back in the 1930's. Connie later had a solo career and I seem to remember even seeing her as a guest on the Mike Douglas Show in the 1960s.

What's surprising about Smoke Gets In Your Eyes is that it was written by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. Kern wrote with a number of lyricists, but he and Hammerstein wrote a lot more than just Showboat. (Still one of the towering achievements of Broadway musicals) If Oscar had never joined up with Richard Rodgers, his collaborations with Kern would be the thing for which he'd still be worthy of remembering. Here's one of their collaborations which is considered by many to be one of the best songs ever written, Its melody is complicated and its lyrics sublime ... and Ella Fitzgerald puts a wonderful jazz spin on it.

That was the other song I was

trkingmomoe — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 22:42:45 +0000

In reply to I did not know that. It's

That was the other song I was going to share. My mother told us that this song was from a movie in the late 30's but I could not remember what the movie was.

She also did Smoke Gets In My Eyes.

Now you are killing me.

Richard Day — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 02:32:07 +0000

In reply to I did not know that. It's

Now you are killing me.

hahahahah

Jeeeeeez

Thank you.

I interupt.

Richard Day — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 02:30:51 +0000

In reply to This is for you Mr. Smith.

I interupt.

This is delightful.

Thank you.

I did not know that. It's

MrSmith1 — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 01:54:28 +0000

In reply to This is for you Mr. Smith.

I did not know that. It's all about the beat, isn't it? hahaha

Change it, re-arrange it, syncopate it and you change the whole feel of a song.

I always loved old tunes, so I wasn't surprised back in 1961 when we found out that the big Doo-wop hit, Blue Moon was written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart back in the 30's ... but a lot of my friends were shocked.

You know I never liked John.

Richard Day — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 00:51:15 +0000

In reply to Thanks. DD!

You know I never liked John.

Except for so many songs. ha

I have to pile on now per your poetry.

I thought of dancers