Oldie:
Asking a celestial body to grant you your heart's desire
hmmm. Rules are made to be broken, or something like that. Go ahead, ask the Broadway one, Bree. I get very frustrated when they cut songs from the movie version. (lol)
Oh! Thinking. Hold on to the B'way one.
I like a woman who isn't afraid to bend her own rules!
I just asked a new one, so to avoid confusion, I'll keep the one that was cut from the movie for my next turn.
I'm about to leave for home, but will check in later this evening.
Trust me, you know this song: if I'm lying about that, may my nose grow a foot longer!
When You Wish Upon a Star was my first thought anyway. And there, you jumped the gun again. (lol)
Pinocchio
(Aside: After music and dance lessons failed, my mother thought it would be nice if I took singing lessons. When You Wish Upon a Star was the first and last song I sang in class. (lol))
I thought I owed you an early clue because I was kind of stretching the category with Pinocchio! (I think it is a musical, but it's a kind of musical we haven't explored before.)
I love Barbara Cook's version of the song on her "Disney Album." Just think, if you had stuck with your singing lessons, you might have had Barbara Cook's career!
<sigh> Yes. But, kind soul that I am, I never begrudged her any of the success she rightfully deserved. I did, however, resent being doomed to a lifetime of servitude. A servitude during which I wasn't even permitted to:
Oldie - tootle during employment
What a positively Dickensian picture you paint!
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - Whistle While You Work
Yes, but I assure you I NEVER said "Please Sir, I want some more!
Did you ever just listen to the soundtrack of Snow White? Yes, I actually bought the record album and warbled along. Now when I hear her, I want to say: "Get out of the water before you drown. The sweet thing sounds like she's got a mouth full of water."
Do you have time to ask that Broadway tune?
I don't think I've ever heard the soundtrack of Snow White -- and from the way you describe it, it doesn't sound like I've missed much!
Sure, I can ask that tune from an oldie Broadway musical, especially since you'll get it right away:
In Addition to All My Other Talents, I Also Have the Ability to Prepare a Tasty Meal
Don't wait up for me for this one. (lol) But, I'm thinking.
I'm sure you'll get it -- so sure that I'm not going to jump the gun again with another clue!
But I may not be back until late tomorrow (going to the Yankee game in the afternoon), so if you need a clue, I may not be able to provide one for a while.
I hope your team wins.
And so tonight I'll be thinking about Cooks, Chefs, Breakfast, Dinner and Guns.
I Can Cook, Too - On the Town
I never heard the original recording of On the Town. Was your game rained out?
Oldie and Inbetweener.
Between dusk and midnight. A splendid time for vocalizing.
State Fair - It's a Grand Night for Singing
I know the song, of course, but had no idea it was from State Fair until I looked it up. It was the signature song of the "elite" boys' singing group in my high school, so whenever I hear it, I picture a bunch of teenage boys in tuxedos and cummerbunds.
I love it - teenage boys in cummerbunds. (lol) I can understand why you'd never forget that one.
I don't believe the first film version with Will Rogers and Janet Gaynor, et al ,was a musical, but I remember Dana Andrews and Jeanne Crain singing the song on a Ferris Wheel with Dick Haymes and Vivian Blaine joining in, together with a huge chorus, in the 1946 version which I saw sometime in the fifties. "It Might As Well Be Spring" was the Oscar winning song from that version and Dick Haymes had a smash hit with "That's For Me". The 1962 film was a pathetic remake with Ann-Margret, Bobby Darin, Pat Boone, Tom Ewell, and Alice Faye making a comeback.
When you have time, your turn.
