On Jul 3, 5:06=A0pm, Robert Bouton <mprov...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Amy:
> The song from Wonderful Town is called "Swing" and in it, Ruth is
> forced to use some of the slang heard in New York at the time the show
> is set, i.e., the 30's.
>
> The wonderful song by Frank Loesser and Jimmy McHugh, "Murder, He
> Says" - I often suggest dames put it in their audition books - was
> written more than a decade earlier. =A0And makes fun of contem****ary
> slang.
>
> I found a Time Magazine item from 1941, about slang, using Solid,
> Jackson as its title.
>
> Comden & Green (with Bernstein) were writing a show about 1930's New
> York, so, naturally, the colloquialisms of the time were a subject.
> The song doesn't reference Murder He Says but it bares more than a few
> similarities to the Fats Waller (and, later, Andrews Sisters) hit,
> Hold Tight. =A0A couple of lines from different parts of that one:
>
> "When I come home from work at night, I get my favorite dish - fish!"
> "Hold tight, hold tight...I want some seafood mamma!"
>
> I leave it to you to decipher what Fats was singing about...
Greetings:
So, do you think Comden and Green were intentionally referencing the
Waller song with this line? Funny how it sounds so dirty in Waller's
song, but so innocent (because, I guess, Ruth doesn't "get it") in
"Swing..."
Cheers!
Amy :)
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