Topic: THE ELUSIVE BUTTERFLY OF LOVE (Read 28867 times)

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #120 on:** June 08, 2004, 01:55:57 PM »

Jason, thanks for printing one of the absolutely stupidest lyrics ever written.

Jason · « **Reply #121 on:** June 08, 2004, 01:57:45 PM »

I did it all for you, DR Charles Pogue. I did it all for you...

Dan-in-Toronto · « **Reply #122 on:** June 08, 2004, 01:58:08 PM »

Quote from: Jason on June 08, 2004, 01:37:01 PM

Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!
................................................. ............

Just add a can of tomato soup to the usual batter. Now stop moaning already.

Jason · « **Reply #123 on:** June 08, 2004, 02:00:30 PM »

The most complicated cake I've ever baked took only 40 minutes in a 350-degree oven, and even then, I could have remembered the friggin' recipe--1 box of Duncan Hines, 2 eggs, some water and some oil and voila! Another cake!

JMK · « **Reply #124 on:** June 08, 2004, 02:05:26 PM »

My wife's brother used to live near MacArthur Park and as we were driving by it one day, I yelled out, "Look someone left the cake out in the rain!" My wife's brother, who is kind of a literalist, jerked his head around and said, "Where?" I was giggling for days.

Jay · « **Reply #125 on:** June 08, 2004, 02:11:33 PM »

Quote from: Jason on June 08, 2004, 02:00:30 PM

The most complicated cake I've ever baked took only 40 minutes in a 350-degree oven, and even then, I could have remembered the friggin' recipe--1 box of Duncan Hines, 2 eggs, some water and some oil and voila! Another cake!

What about the sweet green icing flowing down, though?

bk · « **Reply #126 on:** June 08, 2004, 02:12:32 PM »

Okay, today's challenge: Just got off the phone with our very own Harvey Schmidt - we needs a copy of the ORIGINAL sheet music to Red Sails in the Sunset - apparently the images is a setting sun of some sort. Sparkling prize to he/she who locates it in a timely fashion (red toreodor pants and a blouse with fringe).

Robin · « **Reply #127 on:** June 08, 2004, 02:14:24 PM »

As to the topic of the day:

The single worst song ever recorded is "Everybody was Kung-Fu Fighting". I don't know who sang it. Which is probably a good thing. For the jerk who did.

Another number on the shit parade..."Johnny Get Angry". Again, I dunno the so-called "artist" behind it. Sexist, mysogynistic crap.

There was also an instrumental song called "Popcorn" by (I believe) a group called Hot Butter that made me cringe. And any of those disco-ized versions of "Star Wars" and "Superman" by Meco (remember that loser?) made me wanna throw bricks. And that "Music Box Dancer" atrocity makes my blood pressure rise dangerously, too.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #128 on:** June 08, 2004, 02:17:02 PM »

Quote from: bk on June 08, 2004, 02:12:32 PM

Okay, today's challenge: Just got off the phone with our very own Harvey Schmidt - we needs a copy of the ORIGINAL sheet music to Red Sails in the Sunset - apparently the images is a setting sun of some sort. Sparkling prize to he/she who locates it in a timely fashion (red toreodor pants and a blouse with fringe).

So, does he need the actual original piece of sheet music? Or just the original image - in a very clear format? Methinks I have a bound collection of songs that feature the original cover art, so... And since I'm to venture into my bedroom and sort through some stuff.... Hmm.. I'll keep my eyes open for it.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #129 on:** June 08, 2004, 02:19:18 PM »

Jay, Thanks for providing another stunning example of why MacArthur Park has one of the absolutely stupidest lyrics ever written for a song.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #130 on:** June 08, 2004, 02:19:56 PM »

Send me that tape right now, MBARNUM!! I need me some Surfside 6!

Well a few days ago DRJAY gave us a preview of "It's Delovely", and I am still excited to see it....with a big elusive butt!! In the June, 2004, Movieline Hollywood Life, there is an article on said fillum. There are some nice photos of Cole and Linda Porter and a few photos from the fillum. Lots of info about the clothes....and then....the horrifying news of all to me:

"...it was up to music supervisor Steven Endelman to make them [the Porter songs out of chronological order] work musically...." Porter songs have to be "made" to work "musically'?

Endelman says: "....[he] is not a Cole Porter zealot...I wasn't somebody who was going to say 'Oh my God, we can't do that because it's going to be sacreligious to the written note of Cole Porter."

"Thus Endelman rearranged [!]...the usual rumba-like rhythm of 'Begin the Beguine' into a much slower, melancholy lament that punctuates a tragic moment in the film for Cole and Linda."

"The filmmakers went after a variety of recording artists to perform Porter's songs in the film, looking to attract as wide a demographic as possible."

De-lovely, indeed!

TCB · « **Reply #131 on:** June 08, 2004, 02:21:17 PM »

WORST SONG EVER!

(If it even qualifies as a song!)

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Remember when you ran away and I got on my knees and begged you not to
leave because I'd go berserk?? Well...
You left me anyhow and then the days got worse and worse and now you see
I've gone completely out of my mind.. And..
They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa
To the funny farm. Where life is beautiful all the time and I'll be
happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they're
coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!!!!

You thought it was a joke and so you laughed, you laughed when I had said
that loosing you would make me flip my lid.. RIGHT???
I know you laughed, I heard you laugh, you laughed you laughed and
laughed and then you left, but now you know I'm utterly mad... And..

They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa,
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa.
To the happy home. With trees and flowers and chirping birds and basket
weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes and they're
coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #132 on:** June 08, 2004, 02:24:18 PM »

Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages and were pressed
In love's hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!

I recall the yellow cotton dress
Foaming like a wave
On the ground around your knees
The birds, like tender babies in your hands
And the old men playing checkers by the trees

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!

[break]

There will be another song for me
For I will sing it
There will be another dream for me
Someone will bring it
I will drink the wine while it is warm
And never let you catch me looking at the sun
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
You'll still be the one

I will take my life into my hands and I will use it
I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it
I will have the things that I desire
And my passion flow like rivers through the sky
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
I'll be thinking of you
And wondering why

[break]

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!
Oh, no
No, no
Oh no!!

Dan-in-Toronto · « **Reply #133 on:** June 08, 2004, 02:26:59 PM »

Quote from: bk on June 08, 2004, 02:12:32 PM

Okay, today's challenge: Just got off the phone with our very own Harvey Schmidt - we needs a copy of the ORIGINAL sheet music to Red Sails in the Sunset - apparently the images is a setting sun of some sort. Sparkling prize to he/she who locates it in a timely fashion (red toreodor pants and a blouse with fringe).

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=157&item=3728794942&rd=1#ebayphotohosting

If this doesn't help, keep trying eBay. It's sure to show up.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #134 on:** June 08, 2004, 02:27:51 PM »

This one can be found here.

But it doesn't seem like the one you are describing.

http://www.cyberattic.com/stores/sherrysantiques/items/220421/item220421cyberattic.html

Jrand73 · « **Reply #135 on:** June 08, 2004, 02:28:49 PM »

Ah...Dan - I think yours is the one! Looks more like it than mine!

TCB · « **Reply #136 on:** June 08, 2004, 02:29:23 PM »

Quote from: Stuart on June 08, 2004, 12:47:40 PM

Apparently the state of NY has also granted state employees the day, in recognition of the national day of mourning. (I just got a cockamamie "campus broadcast message" indicating that all non-essential employees are able to take the day without consequence. Followed by a load of parameters as to what essential employees are entitled to in recompense if they have to work that day. You can't imagine the lovely feeling that being deemed "non-essential" imparts. I also have to say that even though I work for the State University of New York, I often forget that I am a state employee.)

So anyway, you know what they say, DR Barnum: As NY goes, so goes the nation. (Isn't that what they say?)

Possibly the nation, but not the State of Washington. Our Governor has announced that he does not have the authority to close state offices on Friday. That decsion, per the Governor, can only be made by the Legislature, but since they don't start their session until January, it is doubtful that we will be closing this Friday.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #137 on:** June 08, 2004, 02:32:35 PM »

DR TCB:
And there is an answer song by Josephine!
On some copies of the singleof "They're Coming To Take Me Away" it is sung backwards.

DR Panni: It has not been the Australian National Anthem for a few decades. It is a German tune anyway. The New OZ Anthem is dreadful = "Our home is girt by sea" (Advance Australia Fair).

DR Charles: Peggy Lee sang "Alley Cat" and that lady had talent, amd taste.

DR JMK: Thank you for Sergio Medes photo.

DR LAura. Great Photo. Colin will love it.

So many posts. Whilst I have been asleep you have indeed being having joy having fun in your seasons in the sun.

Could not understand why anyone liked "Ribbons Down My Back". Herman seemed so proud of it.

"Yesterday". Oh to have those royalties. Beautiful melody and the lyrics are fine by me - it was originally titled "Scrambled Eggs".

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #138 on:** June 08, 2004, 02:35:19 PM »

Until that awesome Tony Awards telecast in which I witnessed Jennifer Holliday performing the greatest ode to masochism I'd ever heard -- "And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going" -- I had previously felt Lorraine Ellison held the title with her overwhelming "Stay With Me."

Stay with me Lyrics

(Pagovoy/Weiss)

Where did you go
When things went wrong, baby,
And who did you run to,
To find a shoulder
To lay your head upon.
Baby, wasn't I there,
Didn't I take good care of you.

Oh no, I can't believe you leaving me...

Stay with me, baby,
Stay with me, baby...
Won't you stay with me, baby,
I can't go on...

Who did you touch
When you need tenderness.
I gave so much
And in return I found happiness.
Baby, what did I do
Maybe I was too good, too good for you.

No, no, I can't believe you leaving me.

Stay with me, baby,
Stay with me, baby.
Won't you stay with me, baby,
I can't go on.

Remember,
You said you're always gonna need me,
Remember,
You said you'd never, ever leave me,
Remember, remember, I'm asking you, begging you.

Stay with me, baby,
Stay with me, baby...
Won't you stay with me, baby,
I can't go on, can't go on...

Stay with me, baby,
Stay with me, stay with me, baby.
Won't you stay with me, baby,
I can't go on...

Who here remembers hearing Ellison sing this song, and who here heard it in a very specific context?

bk · « **Reply #139 on:** June 08, 2004, 02:36:03 PM »

I'd found the Fred Waring one - I'm getting it for him anyway, but it doesn't sound like what he's describing. The eBay one is definitely not it - it's from the UK. The Waring one is from 1935 but the song was first published in 1925, so keep looking.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #140 on:** June 08, 2004, 02:37:20 PM »

DR Robin: Joannie Sommers "Johnny Get Angry.
Carl Douglas "Kung Foo Fighting"

Mysoginist songs: "Born A Woman" Sandy Posey
"Stand By Your Man" Tammy Wynette
"For The Love Of Him" Bobbi Martin

Dan-in-Toronto · « **Reply #141 on:** June 08, 2004, 02:38:28 PM »

Quote from: Tomovoz on June 08, 2004, 02:32:35 PM

So many posts. Whilst I have been asleep you have indeed being having joy having fun in your seasons in the sun.

And whilst you were asleep, TomovOz, I had finally managed to get that furshlugginer tune out of my head. Thanks for nothing.

MBarnum · « **Reply #142 on:** June 08, 2004, 02:39:46 PM »

Man, I really like a lot to of these songs that you guys hate! LOL! My friends are right...I do have bad taste!

How about LOVING YOU by Minnie Ripperton? When that one comes on I turn the radio up really loud and sing along! Ha!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #143 on:** June 08, 2004, 02:49:17 PM »

LOVING YOU by Minnie Ripperton....ugh ugh ugh! And yes I know she's dead, and no dying didn't improve her recordings.

When she lost the Grammy she hauled herself up onstage later in the evening (presenting, I guess) I did that awful caterwauling just to show us what for....

S. Woody White · « **Reply #144 on:** June 08, 2004, 02:50:59 PM »

Quote from: Jay on June 08, 2004, 02:11:33 PM

What about the sweet green icing flowing down, though?

Food coloring. And a dash of mint extract.

TCB · « **Reply #145 on:** June 08, 2004, 02:52:35 PM »

Quote from: MBarnum on June 08, 2004, 02:39:46 PM

Man, I really like a lot to of these songs that you guys hate! LOL! My friends are right...I do have bad taste!

How about LOVING YOU by Minnie Ripperton? When that one comes on I turn the radio up really loud and sing along! Ha!

MBarnum, you never cease to amaze me.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #146 on:** June 08, 2004, 02:55:35 PM »

Another RED SAILS link, but no photo! $:-\$

http://www.amres.com/catalogs/SMPS.asp

S. Woody White · « **Reply #147 on:** June 08, 2004, 02:55:47 PM »

Quote from: RLP on June 08, 2004, 02:24:18 PM

There will be another song for me
For I will sing it
There will be another dream for me
Someone will bring it
I will drink the wine while it is warm
And never let you catch me looking at the sun
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
You'll still be the one

I will take my life into my hands and I will use it
I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it
I will have the things that I desire
And my passion flow like rivers through the sky
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
I'll be thinking of you
And wondering why

Damn, but that's a good lyric. How'd it get in the middle of the rest of that mess?

And I'm a long-time Jimmy Webb fan.

Sandra · « **Reply #148 on:** June 08, 2004, 02:57:17 PM »

Quote from: Jed on June 08, 2004, 11:38:30 AM

A perfect pairing with the lovely tea service you showed us the other day! Have you considered interior design, Sandra?

Yes, I have considered it, but my mom says not to get my hopes up. But I think I have the best room. The leopard spotted wallpaper border really adds something.

I couldn't get to sleep last night until Mom and I got back from our walk at 7:30. Then I crashed on my futon and I just got up.

Curses for mentioning Kung Fu Fighting! The last time y'all were talking about that, I had it stuck in my head for three days. Luckily I am listening to Lee Lessack singing Johnny Mercer songs right now.

MBarnum · « **Reply #149 on:** June 08, 2004, 02:57:40 PM »

Quote from: TCB on June 08, 2004, 02:52:35 PM

MBarnum, you never cease to amaze me.

Not only that but I LOVE disco!

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