Topic: ALL OF A SUDDENT MY HEART SINGS (Read 15682 times)

bk · « **on:** May 28, 2005, 11:59:38 PM »

Well, you've read the notes, there were no suddent surprises in the notes, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home, which might just be suddently.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** May 29, 2005, 12:01:20 AM »

And the word of the day is: BONGO!

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #2 on:** May 29, 2005, 12:15:17 AM »

Well, BK, I still want to see TEAM AMERICA because I think SOUTH PARK is still the funniest, sharpest, over-the-top, dead-on-target satire on TV.

DEAD RINGERS is, I agree, a laudable film, but I found it so uncomfortable that I don't think I ever need to see it again.

My favourite Harold Arlen song is OUT OF THIS WORLD with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It is from a Paramount movie of the same title in the late forties where Eddie Bracken plays a schlub who when he sings happens to sound just like Bing Crosby. The voice is, of course, dubbed by the old Groaner himself. His version of the song is still the best version I've ever heard...despite the fact, that it has lately seemed to had a resurgence in popularity with many and sundry adding it to their repertoire. I have an audio tape version of Crosby doing it quite prettily, but the only version of his that I can find on CD is excerpt from the movie with a cameo of his kids speaking over the song.

It is a haunting lovely melody with a lovely Mercer lyric.

bk · « **Reply #3 on:** May 29, 2005, 12:19:12 AM »

I hope you like Team America better than I did. For me, it had none of the humor, sharpness, or dead-on-target satire of South Park.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #4 on:** May 29, 2005, 12:43:41 AM »

Favourite Arlen songs:

Any Place I Hang My Hat
Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe
It's only a Paper Moon
Stormy Weather
One For My Baby
That Old Black Magic

bk · « **Reply #5 on:** May 29, 2005, 03:19:03 AM »

Love Paper Moon - incredible piece of music.

bk · « **Reply #6 on:** May 29, 2005, 03:20:15 AM »

BONGO, baby, BONGO!

bk · « **Reply #7 on:** May 29, 2005, 03:20:49 AM »

And now - Dino at the piano.

And me, toddling off to the bedroom environment, at long last.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #8 on:** May 29, 2005, 05:12:49 AM »

Good morning, all! Today is a GOLDEN APPLE day; three proofs on the vocal score and I'm still finding errors! The next score I do will have a second proofer to check over my first pass I've made to see what I missed. possible. It's been for years a mess of a show: the rental orchestra parts are the uncorrected masters of the corrected 1954 Broadway parts (meaning the Broadway parts have corrections the rental parts do not), then in 1977 Jerome Moross delivered to Tams-Witmark a "final score" with its own errors and variant musical changes that differ from the rental orchestra parts; my job was to reconcile everything and create a new vocal score, and I'm still finding errors in my work! I'm now correcting the orchestra parts to provide a new set that jives with the new score. Oy! Hopefully, when this August concert is over, we'll be as close as possible to a good edition.

TOD: My alltime favorite Arlen song is "My Shining Hour"
"Push De Button"
"Over the Rainbow"
"It's Only a Paper Moon"
"The Man That Got Away"
"Blues in the Night"
"Stormy Weather"
"I Never Has Seen Snow"
"Sleepin' Bee"
"Any Place I Hang My Hat is Home"

He wrote too many great ones! I can't think of that many right now.

Hisaka · « **Reply #9 on:** May 29, 2005, 05:26:37 AM »

Good morning, DR ELMORE!
How are you this moring? Hope you feel better.

Hisaka · « **Reply #10 on:** May 29, 2005, 05:28:09 AM »

DR TOMOVOZ, Thank you for the beautiful birds photo!
And I have a question to you. I heard that in Australia, Manuka Honey is famous as a good medicine for a stomach ulcer. Is that true? I’ve no idea if I’ve had Manuka so far but would like to try it if your answer is Yes. ( however, I’ve not a stomach ulcer)

elmore3003 · « **Reply #11 on:** May 29, 2005, 05:45:15 AM »

Quote from: Hisaka on May 29, 2005, 05:26:37 AM

Good morning, DR ELMORE!
How are you this moring? Hope you feel better.

Good morning, DRHisaka! Thank you for asking. I'm starting to feel my old self again. Inless I hear really distressing things from the surgeon this week, I think I'm healing nicely. I love your photos of the roses. Are they all from your garden? It must be lovely. How are things coming along for you?

Hisaka · « **Reply #12 on:** May 29, 2005, 05:46:06 AM »

.....As for yesterday’s TOD: The Sky Over Berlin by Wim Wenders. I know it’s not a kind of circus film but the circus scenes impressed immensely themselves on me. So I’d like to add it on the dear readers’ lists.

Hisaka · « **Reply #13 on:** May 29, 2005, 06:08:29 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on May 29, 2005, 05:45:15 AM

Good morning, DRHisaka! Thank you for asking. I'm starting to feel my old self again. Inless I hear really distressing things from the surgeon this week, I think I'm healing nicely. I love your photos of the roses. Are they all from your garden? It must be lovely. How are things coming along for you?

Wish you’re healing nicely.
Yes, the roses are all from my garden and they bloom very proudly this year.

Glad you like them.
My mother is getting better (she has had a manic-depressive psychosis for about five years) so I reassure myself about her health for the moment.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #14 on:** May 29, 2005, 07:11:22 AM »

Expresso Bongo!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #15 on:** May 29, 2005, 07:13:41 AM »

Harold Arlen:

My favorites have been mentioned, but can be mentioned again.

Add votes for:

It's Only a Paper Moon
Blues In The Night
Over the Rainbow.

My favorite though, it knocks me out each time I hear it, the perfect combination of singer, song, time, costume, feeling....the works:

Miss Judy Garland singing "The Man That Got Away" in the film A STAR IS BORN. "Good riddance....goo' bye...every trick of his you're on to. But fools will be fools, and where's he gone to?" What a beautiful melody...longing in every note.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #16 on:** May 29, 2005, 07:21:05 AM »

Irving Berlin was out at MGM when EASTER PARADE was being made. He and Judy were in the rehearsal hall, and he corrected her phrasing in a song.

Judy said: "Look here, bub, you write 'em, I sing 'em!" LOL.

Irving laughed louder than anyone.

Judy singing Arlen.....

Jrand73 · « **Reply #17 on:** May 29, 2005, 07:22:48 AM »

Why didn't Mr Race Gentry become a bigger star? He certainly was as handsome as some of those that did.

Well DRMBARNUM sent me a movie that answers that question. It is called "Hard Driving" aka "Thunder Over Carolina". He is NOT a bad actor, but his voice sounds like a mix of Lee Philips (from Peyton Place) and Mickey Mouse. It is most disconcerting to hear that voice come from that face.

Matt H. · « **Reply #18 on:** May 29, 2005, 08:01:46 AM »

All my Arlen favorites have been named but for the record:

"The Man That Got Away"
"Blues in the Night"
"I Never Has Seen Snow"
"Over the Rainbow"

Matt H. · « **Reply #19 on:** May 29, 2005, 08:03:28 AM »

In the book TWINS that DEAD RINGERS was adapted from, the twins have a sexual relationship with each other that extends the drama even deeper. I believe this was omitted from the film version, but it's been so long since I saw it that I could be mistaken. I, too, found the film (and the book) very, very disturbing.

Matt H. · « **Reply #20 on:** May 29, 2005, 08:05:02 AM »

I have no idea as I sit here typing which DVDs will inhabit my player today. With only a couple of network shows I'll be watching tonight, DVD will be a major part of my entertainment today, but I just haven't decided what I want to watch (other than a couple of more ANGEL episodes to finish up the disc in the player and pretty much finish up season 2 of the show.)

Matt H. · « **Reply #21 on:** May 29, 2005, 08:22:06 AM »

Last night, DR Dan (the Man) wrote his choices for Best Circus Films:

Favorite Circus films:

Dumbo
The Seven Faces of Dr Lao
Carnival of Souls

HOW could I forget THE SEVEN FACES OF DR. LAO? It's one of my all-time favorite fantasy films and I watch it several times a year. Thank you SO much for reminding me of it.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #22 on:** May 29, 2005, 08:27:47 AM »

Quote from: Matt H. on May 29, 2005, 08:22:06 AM

HOW could I forget THE SEVEN FACES OF DR. LAO? It's one of my all-time favorite fantasy films and I watch it several times a year. Thank you SO much for reminding me of it.

I forgot DR LAO as well, along with the creepy SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES, also JULIET OF THE SPIRITS; although the circus theme is completely peripheral my entire memory of the film is the elopement in the balloon.

Danise · « **Reply #23 on:** May 29, 2005, 08:45:55 AM »

Elmore! You dog!

You just beat me out on a copy of 7 FACES OF DR. LAO on E-bay, didn't you?

I just hit the Buy Now button and was told it was sold to an Elmore5!

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #24 on:** May 29, 2005, 08:50:46 AM »

Good Morning!

I shall be getting in my motor car shortly to drive to the Metro station so that I can a Metro car into DC this afternoon so that I can play both shows of Mamma Mia! today.

I was toying with the idea of driving in and cycling the block looking for parking, but... Today is Rolling Thunder - and even out here in Fairfax, I've been hearing some rolling and thundering all morning. Apparently, it's supposed to be the largest gathering so far for this event. Should be quite the "earful" once I get downtown.

In any case...

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #25 on:** May 29, 2005, 08:54:17 AM »

From yesterday...

DR Pogue mentioned the movie "Carny"... I remember that movie too. When I was around 10, 11... maybe later... that movie was on HBO a lot. A LOT! I vividly remember waking up one morning - a school morning! - and flipping channels while I was eating my breakfast... And suddenly there was Jodie Foster semi-naked on my TV screen.. at 7:30 in the morning?!??! In any case... It was one of those movies that just happened to be on any time I was trying to find something interesting to watch. I think I eventually watched the whole movie, but I never did it in one sitting. Nor sequentially/chronologically either.

Danise · « **Reply #26 on:** May 29, 2005, 09:01:22 AM »

Elmore, I hope you know I'm only teasing you. I think it's pretty funny.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #27 on:** May 29, 2005, 09:01:42 AM »

Favorite Harold Arlen songs...

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Let's Fall in Love
Hooray for Love
This Time the Dream's On Me
Let's Take a Walk Around the Block
As Long As I Live
It Was Written in the Stars
Sing My Heart
Ding-Dong the Witch Is Dead

And many, many others...

*However, it is interesting analyzing the various imagery that Arlen's lyricists use - their trademarks. My friend, Bev, used to an Arlen cabaret, but she would feature the lyricists. Very interesting and very entertaining. It was neat seeing how Arlen's music fit with different people's "images" of love - whether it was more "emotions" based, or nature-based (butterflies, flowers, etc.).

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #28 on:** May 29, 2005, 09:05:18 AM »

As for "Team America"...

It's definitely not a movie for everyone. I knew going in that was is going to lean toward the rude and crude and gross side, so... I did find it funny in a lot of places... But, just like in "South Park" - the movie and the TV series, I did have a few "uncomfortable" places.

That being said, when I saw it in Houston last fall, the theatre was filled with a bunch of theatre people, as well as various groups of high school and college kids. Needless to say, "we" all liked it and were laughing out loud - and hysterically - at times. There's definitely a "this movie is best seen with a group of buds" set-up.

And that's horse racing...

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #29 on:** May 29, 2005, 09:05:43 AM »

Oh...

Well, since I'm still here...

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