Category: Lyrical Tuesdays

Lyrical Tuesday from Jane Hall: Something’s Coming from West Side Story
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Something’s Coming from West Side Story

Everyone told us that [West Side Story] was an impossible project … And we were told no one was going to be able to sing augmented fourths, as with “Ma-ri-a” … Also, they said the score was too rangy for pop music … Besides, who wanted to see a show in which the first-act curtain comes down on two dead bodies lying on the stage?… And then we had the really tough problem of casting it, because the characters had to be able not only to sing but dance and act and be taken for teenagers. Ultimately, some of the cast were teenagers, some were 21, some were 30 but looked 16. Some were wonderful singers but couldn’t dance very well, or vice versa … and if they could do both, they couldn’t act.  Leonard Bernstein  (from Wikipedia)

Could be
Who knows?
There’s something due any day
I will know right away
Soon as it shows
It may come cannonballin’ down through the sky
Gleam in its eye
Bright as a rose!
Who knows?
It’s only just out of reach
Down the block, on a beach
Under a tree
I got a feeling there’s a miracle due
Gonna come true
Coming to me
Could it be?
Yes it could
Something’s coming
Something good
If I can wait
Something’s coming I don’t know what it is
But it is
Gonna be great!
With a click
With a shock
Phone’ll jingle
Door’ll knock
Open the latch!
Something’s coming, don’t know when
But it’s soon
Catch the moon
One handed catch
Around the corner
Or whistling down the river
Come on – deliver
To me
Will it be? Yes it will
Maybe just by holding still
It’ll be there!
Come on, something, come on in
Don’t be shy
Meet a guy
Pull up a chair
The air is hummin’
And something great is coming
Who knows
It’s only just
Out of reach
Down the block, on a beach
Maybe tonight
Maybe tonight…

Click Here to View:  Something’s Coming from Glee with Darren Kris on YouTube

Click Here to View:  Something’s Coming from West Side Story Suite on YouTube

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Lyrical Tuesday from Jane Hall: “You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught”
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“You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught” (sometimes “You’ve Got to Be Taught” or “Carefully Taught”) is a show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific.
South Pacific received scrutiny for its commentary regarding relationships between different races and ethnic groups. In particular, “You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught” was subject to widespread criticism, judged by some to be too controversial or downright inappropriate for the musical stage.[1] Sung by the character Lieutenant Cable, the song is preceded by a line saying racism is “not born in you! It happens after you’re born…”

Rodgers and Hammerstein risked the entire South Pacific venture in light of legislative challenges to its decency or supposed Communist agenda. While the show was on a tour of the Southern United States, lawmakers in Georgia introduced a bill outlawing entertainment containing “an underlying philosophy inspired by Moscow.”[2]One legislator said that “a song justifying interracial marriage was implicitly a threat to the American way of life.”[2] Rodgers and Hammerstein defended their work strongly. James Michener, upon whose stories South Pacific was based, recalled, “The authors replied stubbornly that this number represented why they had wanted to do this play, and that even if it meant the failure of the production, it was going to stay in.”[2]  from Wikipedia.Click Here to

Click here to View:  You’ve Got To Be Carefully Taught – South Pacific (1958)] on YouTube.

Click Here to View: Mandy Patinkin Sings You’ve Got to be Carefully Taught; Children Will Listen Medley on YouTube.

Click Here to View: Barbra Streisand – Carefully Taught and Children Will Listen on YouTube.

Jane Hall’s pick for Lyrical Tuesday: “Autumn in New York”
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Click Here to Listen to: Autumn in New York sung by Frank Sinatra on YouTube.

Click Here to Listen to:  Autumn in New York sung by Billie Holiday on YouTube.

“Autumn In New York”

Autumn in New York
Why does it seem so inviting?
Autumn in New York
It spells the thrill of first-knighting Continue reading Jane Hall’s pick for Lyrical Tuesday: “Autumn in New York”

Lyrical Tuesday from Jane Hall: Time for change
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Click Here to View:  Tony Bennett: There’ll be some changes made on YouTube.

Click Here View: There’ll Be Some Changes Made with Marion Harris (1924) on YouTube.

There’ll Be Some Changes Made”
lyrics by William Blackstone in 1921

They say don’t change the old for the new
But I’ve found out this will never do
When you grow old you don’t last long
You’re here today and then tomorrow you’re gone
I loved a man (gal) for many years gone by Continue reading Lyrical Tuesday from Jane Hall: Time for change

Announcing: Lyrical Tuesdays from Jane Hall on the IPBlog
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Each Tuesday I will be selecting a lyric to post on the IPBlog. Starting today, September 1, 2015.
Please send comments and if the idea is popular, it will continue. The great american songbook cannot die. I will include a few lines about the composer and encourage you to google him/her/them if you like.
Thank you Arnie for this opportunity – I feel that lyrics qualify as poetry. The first selection is dedicated to Arnie, Founder and Editor in Chief of psychoanalyticpsychotherapy.net

Cole Porter – You’re The Top Lyrics

At words poetic I’m so pathetic
That I always have found it best
Instead of getting it off my chest
To let ’em rest unexpressed Continue reading Announcing: Lyrical Tuesdays from Jane Hall on the IPBlog