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Steam Heat--Patti Page, 1954
From a day when we had MUSIC.
I know I’m in a great minority nowadays, but the songs being written now have not much to offer. The performances can be quite good, but so many seem to be all technology and repetitive chordings.
Give me a song that stays. (And this man knew how to write one - he also wrote jingles, like “Let Hertz Put You in the Driver’s Seat”. And I dare anyone who heard that commercial not to get stuck with THAT earworm now!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry8CpIg2fvU
Not to worry, there are plenty of hacks left to compose the silly, trite, disposable Broadway tunes.
Man, do I wish they’d return to making musicals. Some of the best music came from them.
Bye bye Adler, you were no idler.
RIP.
RIP Mr. Adler. Thanks for all the good memories.
I loved The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees. My brother was in a production of Damn Yankees when I was in 5th grade. I was amazed when he started dating “Lola” from the production. I thought she was so glamorous and dangerous.
I still love “Whatever Lola Wants”, “But then I thought about the Game”, “Shoeless Joe from Hannibal MO”.
And in The Pajama Game there was “Fernando’s Hideaway.” I saw that one at San Diego’s Starlight Bowl, where the actors and music stops for a few moments if the airplanes passing overhead get too loud.