Re: I'm listening to...

On Aug 12, 9:02=A0pm, John W Kennedy <jwke...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Harlett O'Dowd wrote:
> > On Aug 11, 3:46 pm, John W Kennedy <jwke...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> The recent two-piano recording of "Marinka" by the Operetta
Foundation=
..
> >> It's interesting to compare it with the Ohio Light Opera version that
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I
> >> saw Saturday night, which is planned to come out on DVD in a year or
> >> two. It's also interesting to hear a K=E1lm=E1n show that was written
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in
> >> English and for Broadway in the first place. George Marion, Jr., was
n=
o
> >> W. S. Gilbert, but his lyrics for "Marinka" still come off better
than
> >> any singing translation I've ever heard -- of, well, anything.
>
> > Well, GOLDEN DAWN was written in English and for Broadway - and with
> > Hammerstein & Harbach! It was filmed too!
>
> > However, my impression (which may well be wrong) is that Kalman sort
> > of did an Elton John with GD and dashed off some tune(s) for Stothat
> > to make sense of.
>
> Jessie Wright Martin has nothing to say on that one way or the other. I
> have heard, though, that almost nothing by K=E1lm=E1n survives in the
mov=
ie,
> anyway.

The title tune, surely.

Only three new numbers were added for the film version - the opening
tirade, "Africa Smiles No More," Lupino Lane's wonderful "Jungle
Bungalow" and the bizarre duet celebrating domestic violence - "You
Know the Type - a Tiger!"

The rest of the score - including "My Bwanna" and the Whip song -  is
from the stage show. So again, apart from the title tune, which has
K=E1lm=E1n's name all over it, I don't know how much work he did on the
stage show in the first place.