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Posted by Derek Janssen on 07/04/06 19:24
Howard Brazee wrote:
> On 4 Jul 2006 11:38:29 -0700, "Dave in Toronto"
> <dmatthews03@sympatico.ca> wrote:
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>>I'm very fond of the 1945 "State Fair" as well - Another very pleasant
>>song from it is "That's for Me" which became sort of a standard. If you
>>haven't already heard it you should try and catch Louis Armstrong's
>>version of it.
>
> It's funny trying to write a love song that occurs in a State Fair
> when love is supposed to happen in Spring time!
Well, that's the thing:
If you watched the PBS "Broadway" documentary, one expert observed that
R&H never wrote love songs--
They wrote songs for the characters TRYING NOT TO ADMIT they're in love,
or desperately trying to reassure themselves they're not, or how they
shouldn't be, or reminding each other that good thing they're not, since
it'd be the worst thing in the world if they ever let it happen...
(Just for the trivia challenge, name one R&H standard where the
characters say flat-out that they really *are* in love at that exact
moment in the story.) :)
Derek Janssen (go ahead...)
ejanss@comcast.net
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