A New Game, Remember This Verse? Just Name The Refrain.

Marian · Post by **Marian** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 2:15 pm

I've just noticed Lena and Harry got Impossible Dream, didn't they? Senior moment again!

Marian

mariana44 · Post by **mariana44** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 4:45 pm

Hi Marian, I am pleased that I got that one correct. My last one was "Man of La Mancha" from "The Impossible Dream"

I have one that I have been meaning to put on for ages, but keep forgetting. I am trying to stump Harry and Lena

I light a candle to our love
in love our problems disappear.
But all in all we soon discover that one and one is all we long to hear

Marian [2]

Marian · Post by **Marian** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 4:32 pm

...Or even The Impossible Dream from Man of La Mancha, Marian!
Haven't a clue about your latest, I'll leave it for Lena and Harry.

Very quiet on here today

Marian

ROBERT M. · Post by **ROBERT M.** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 4:37 pm

I was until we came on here Maid Marian

paul and sue · Post by **paul and sue** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:46 pm

Hi Marian and all, could it be Paul Mccartneys Pipes Of Peace?

mariana44 · Post by **mariana44** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:59 pm

Well done, Paul and Sue-that is excellent. I was not sure how long it would take to be guessed as it is from a different era from most of the songs on this section. Well done again.

Your turn to set us all a poser!!

Marian

paul and sue · Post by **paul and sue** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 9:05 pm

Thanks marian, our era, try this one, i think its pretty easy, mind you as the man says "there only easy if you know the answer"

They say that your a run around lover
Though you say it isn't so
But if you put me down for another
I'll know, believe me, I'll know

mariana44 · Post by **mariana44** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 9:11 pm

Hi Paul and Sue--I feel mean getting this one so quickly, but I believe it is "The night has a thousand eyes"

Marian

paul and sue · Post by **paul and sue** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 9:13 pm

Hi Marian well done, your turn, all the best Paul and Sue

paul jh · Post by **paul jh** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 11:16 pm

Since there's a break in the action of song guessing, I had a follow-on question for Lena and Harry who correctly guessed my opening verse of Desert Song (back in page 17). You stated you saw this "musical" in London in the 1960s. I thought Desert Song was an operetta. Were operettas (besides G & S) still being performed in London in the 1960s? I don't believe they were still being performed in New York City.

mariana44 · Post by **mariana44** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:11 am

Hi all-sorry to be late with this one--fairly easy, I would say-

Once there was a thing called spring

When the world was writing verses like yours and mine,

All the lads and girls would sing

When we sat at little tables and drank may wine.

Marian

jon · Post by **jon** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 2:20 pm

Hi Marian

A Johnny Mathis fan would easily get this one: Spring is Here!! Only unfortunately it isn't. I'll try and think of another song myself soon.

Lena & Harry Smith · Post by **Lena & Harry Smith** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:52 pm

Hi Paul, yes we have always recognised "The Desert Song" as an operetta and yet our memorabillia and programme of that production along with three others of John Hanson and at that time have described each of these productions as "Romantic Musicals."
Operettas were indeed scarce in London in the Sixties, in fact the Sixties were't considered the best for musicals either except for Lionel Barts " Oliver " in 1960, "Stop The World I Want To Get Off" in 61, and Lionel Bart's "Blitz" in 62, " Half A Sixpence" in 63 seemed to be popular and a success, but the rest of the year seemed pretty much a disaster with short run musicals and criticism.

paul jh · Post by **paul jh** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 10:46 pm

Thanks for the explanation of Desert Song. I believe the 1960s were fairly quiet on Broadway for musicals also. Probably the most popular were Hello Dolly, Mame, Oliver, She Loves Me, How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Man Of LaMancha, Cabaret, Fiddler On The Roof, and A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum. (Perhaps they were so quiet after all.

) I guess the 1960s were a transition period from the Rodgers & Hammerstein/Lerner & Lowe/Cole Porter/Jerome Kern musicals to the period of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stephen Sondheim, and Boublil/Schonberg---with Jerry Herman and Kander & Ebb being the primary composers during the transition period.

mariana44 · Post by **mariana44** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:45 pm

Whose turn is it to come up with another one---oh, it's Jon.

Here's one while we are waiting---easy!

I don't care if there's powder on my nose.
I don't care if my hairdo is in place.
I've lost the very meaning of repose.
I never put a mudpack onmy face.
Oh, who'd have thought
that I'd walk in the daze now?
I never go to shows at night,
but just to matinees now.
I see the show
and home I go.

Marian