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Tribute to Knickerbockers :

From Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson's play "Knickerbocker Holiday":

(Originally performed by Walter Huston)

Oh, it's a long, long while
From May to December
And the days grow short
When you reach September
When the autumn weather

Turns the leafs to flame

One hasn't got time for the waiting game
Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few
September, November
And these few precious days
I'll spend with you
These precious days
I'll spend with you.

When you meet with the young men early in spring
They court you in song and rhyme
They woo you with words and a clover ring
But if you examine the goods they bring
They have little to offer but the songs they sing
And a plentiful waste of time of day
A plentiful waste of time.

For it's a long, long while
From May to December
And the days grow short
When you reach September
When the autumn weather

Turns the leafs to flame

One hasn't got time for the waiting game
Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few
September, November
And these few precious days
I'll spend with you;
These precious days
I'll spend with you.

or the original version which begins:

When I was a young man courting the girls
I played me the waiting game
If a maid refused me with a tossing curls, oh,
I let the old earth, take a couple of whirls
While I plied her with tears in place of pearls
And as time came around she came my way
As time came around she came

For its a long, long while, from May to December
And the days grow short, when you reach September

That reminds me...there's a very famous standard that has no rhymes at all. Can you guess what it is Letty?

Hmmm, Panz of the cat. Can you give us a clue? I promise not to growl at you.

It's quiz time on WA2K, listeners. Meanwhile, Letty assumes the pose of The Thinker.

Nice pose Letty...well it concerns one of the 50 states....hmmmm?

Panz, you handsome dog. It's Moonlight in Vermont.

Gawd, you're exceptional!

Is it also the only one to have 3-line verses?

Proving, McTag and Panz, that there are rebels in the music business as well as in the arts.

If I'm not mistaken, Mel Torme and the Meltones did a song called "I fall in Love too Easily"

I fall in love too easily,
I fall in love too fast,
I fall in love too terribly hard,
For love to ever last.

My heart should be well schooled,
'Cause I've been fooled in the past.
Yet I fall in love too easily,
I fall in love too fast.

Two stanzas and no verse (but they created one later)

Good question McTag

Stephen Foster's first published song

Original manuscript of the Foster's first published song, "Open Thy Lattice Love," published on December 7, 1844 . The lyrics to the song were taken from a poem by George Pope Morris. The original manuscript is lost (this is a photographic reproduction from Evelyn Foster Morneweck's The Chronicles of Stephen Foster's Family) and there were substantial differences between the piano accompaniment of this manuscript and the accompaniment of the published version.

Wow! edgar. Listeners, isn't the title, Open Thy Lattice Love, romantic? I couldn't see the music too well, but it looks to be in the key of F with 6/4 time. Hey, Panz. Did Brubeck play Take Five in 6/4? I ain't too good at counting the beats to the measure when it's deviates from 4/4 or 3/4.

5/4 time on the Brubeck, he also did some experimentation in 9/8, and 11/4.

Thanks, dys. I guess that's where the title comes from. Duh. Wow! I can't imagine how 9/8 or 11/4 would sound.

Quiz: Don't look it up, either.

What sax man played with Brubeck?

Desmond

You smart thing, Dys. Some time back we saw Brubeck at the jazz portion of the LSO. Tell our listeners more about that later. I'm running behind a little.

Later, listeners

an item of interest from our eco-system:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=570&ncid=570&e=2&u=/nm/20050129/sc_nm/uganda_anthrax_dc

John of Virginia has breathed new life into an old thread. We might refer to it as the Lazarus experiment. Should you like to have a look see, audience, Just post your clamor here.

and another inspiration from Misti of Cocoa:

(from memory)

I cried for you,
Now it's your turn to cry over me.
Every road has it's turning.
That's one thing I'm learning.

I cried for you,
What a fool I used to be.
Now I've found two eyes just a little bit bluer,
I've found a heart just a little bit truer.

I cried for you.
Now it's your turn to cry over me.