Oh, that helps!
I loved the concert! The pianist was Angela Hewitt, whom I've heard before and greatly admired. The first half of the program was all-Bach: the Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, and one of the French Suites. In the second half, she started with another 18th-century piece (Couperin's "Treizieme Ordre"), then skipped forward 200 years to Ravel's "Le Tombeau de Couperin". Her encore was another Ravel piece, which was maddeningly familiar but the name of which escapes me (and Carnegie Hall's website hadn't yet listed it when I checked earlier this morning). If I hummed it for you, do you think you could identify it?
I don't know if it will help if you hum it although I am more familiar with Ravel than Bach.
So glad you enjoyed it.
Am I on the right track with these?
Roy Rogers - The Yellow Rose of Texas
Tyrone Power - Rose of Washington Square
Richard Gere - Chicago
Clark Gable - Honky Tonk (as in Honky Tonk Blues, or Honky Tonk Woman)
For the last one, I'm guessing "on the corner" must be the three words for Alex Rice. But the only song I can think of with "on the corner" in the title is "Standin' on the Corner", and that doesn't fit because your clue has it preceded by three words (two for Sellers and one for Chaplin). What am I missing?
Tyrone Power - Rose of Washington Square
Rose of Washington Square, a flower so
fair, should blossom where the sun shines
Rose, for nature did not mean, that you should
blush unseen, but be the queen, of some fair garden
Rose, I'll never depart, but dwell in your
heart, your love to care, I'll bring the
sunbeams from the Heavens to you, and
give you kisses that sparkle with dew, my
Rose of Washington Square.
Roy Rogers - The Yellow Rose of Texas
Clark Gable - San Franciso
San Francisco, open your golden gate
You'll let nobody wait outside your door
San Francisco, here is your wanderin' one
Saying I'll wander no more.
Richard Gere - Chicago (Chicago, Chicago that toddling town
Chicago, chicago I'll show you around - )
Peter Sellers - There's a Girl in My Soup + Charlie Chaplin - The Pawnshop + Alex Rice - On the Corner of John Wayne - Pittsburgh + Keanu Reeves - The Prince of Pennsylvania
There's a pawnshop on a corner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
And I walk up and down 'neath the clock
By the pawnshop on a corner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
But I ain't got a thing left to hock
She was peaches, she was honey, and she cost me all my money
'cause a whirl 'round the town was her dream (was her dream)
Took her dancin', took her dinin' till her blue eyes were shinin'
With the sights that they never had seen (never seen)
If you should run into a golden-haired angel
And ask her tonight for a date
She'll tell you somewhere there's a rich millionaire
Who is calling again about eight
There's a pawnshop on a corner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
And I've just gotta get five or ten (five or ten)
From the pawnshop on a corner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
Gotta be with my angel again
You sound good this morning!
I don't mind that I didn't get the pawnshop song, because I've never heard of it (although I've obviously been missing a good song), but how could I have missed San Francisco?!
Did Kate Smith record The Yellow Rose of Texas? I remember loving her TV show when I was about 5 years old, and I have distant memories of parading around the living room singing The Yellow Rose of Texas at about the same age, so I'm wondering if there was a connection.
I just noted that Bob Merrill, the composer of Carnival, wrote Pawnshop in PA.("prolific composer and lyricist of the familiar "How Much is that Doggie in the Window," and Broadway musicals, including Funny Girl, Carnival and New Girl in Town") He died in 1998. Pawnship was No. 4 nationwide on the charts in 1952.
Guy Mitchell was the guy who made Pawnship popular.
When you get some time, take a look at this site which relates to the lyrics (I guess it's the same song) of Yellow Rose of Texas
http://www.nationwide.net/~amaranth/yellow.htm
and, then this:
http://www.wintertexans.com/yellowrose.htm
I don't remember Kate Smith doing that song, but I wouldn't be surprised.
Very interesting information on The Yellow Rose of Texas! I never knew any of it.
On second thought, I think maybe it was a Mitch Miller record that I knew the song from. In my mind's ear, I hear it being sung by a male chorus.
Yes. I believe Mitch Mitchell did Yellow Rose - and Pawnshop and Yellow Rose (lol). He did everything. I thought it was funny that Bob Merrill wrote Pawnshop and Doggie in the Window.
I learned The Yellow Rose of Texas in fourth grade along with other Texas-related songs: Deep in the Heart of Texas, The Streets of Laredo, and a couple of others. That teacher must have been from Texas, I guess.
That's funny. Streets of Laredo is pretty somber stuff for a fourth grader.
Indeed!
I'm now trying to recall the lyrics and/or name of the song which includes
...Get along little dogie,
It's your misfortune
and none of my own...
A dogie is a calf. I always felt bad for the little calf with misfortune. Going to have to google it to get it out of my head now!
Sounds like your teacher was a daughter of The Sons of the Pioneers. (lol)
Ok, found it (on a website called cowboylyrics.com!) Now I can think of something else...
As I was walking one morning for pleasure
I spied a cowpuncher riding along
His hat was throwed back and his spurs were a-jingling
And as he approached he was singing this song
Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies
It's your misfortune and none of my own
Whoopie ti yi yo, git along little dogies
You know that Wyoming will be your new home
Early in the springtime we round up the dogies
Mark 'em and brand 'em and bob off their tails
Round up the horses, load up the chuck wagon
Then throw the little dogies out on the long trail
Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies
It's your misfortune and none of my own
Whoopie ti yi yo, git along little dogies
You know that Wyoming will be your new home
Night comes on and we hold 'em on the bedground
The same little dogies that rolled on so slow
We roll up the herd and cut out the stray ones
Then roll the little dogies like never before
Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies
It's your misfortune and none of my own
Whoopie ti yi yo, git along little dogies
You know that Wyoming will be your new home
Some boys go up the long trail for pleasure
But that's where they get it most awfully wrong
For you'll never know the trouble they give us
As we go drivin' them dogies along
Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies
It's your misfortune and none of my own
Whoopie ti yi yo, git along little dogies
You know that Wyoming will be your new home
Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies
It's your misfortune and none of my own
Whoopie ti yi yo, git along little dogies
You know that Wyoming will be your new home
You know that Wyoming will be your new home
Looks like you settled down in the right territory.
Who was it who did the parody of Streets of Laredo with lyrics that went:
I see by your outfit that you are a cowboy,
I see by my outfit that I am one too.
We see by our outfits that we are both cowboys,
If you buy an outfit, you can be a cowboy too.
?
Smothers Brothers, according to google...
That makes sense. I suppose I could have googled it too, but I was too lazy. ("Too lazy to google" -- what an epithet!)
I'm watching the Marx Bros. while I play here. I never appreciated those guys, or is it a senior thing? When I was young, I thought they were corny(do they still use that word?). Now, I think they're funny.
I think they're funny in small doses, they make me tired after a while!
(and yes, some of us still say corny)
I still use the word "corny" (but that doesn't really prove anything, because I still use lots of words that have gone out of fashion).
I don't think finding the Marx Brothers funny is necessarily related one's age, although I suppose one's sense of humor can change as one -- shall we say -- evolves. I had a friend in law school who loved them even way back then (when he was in his 20's), and still does. He used to address his grandmother (with whom he had a very good relationship) as "Mrs. Dumont".
