Quoting "Peter J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Not show tunes, but Gilbert and Sullivan. (Which may be even worse). > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Quoting frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>New guy posts to say hello, here's a pic I recently took, and his > >>thread gets hijacked into a discussion about pirates laughs, and now > >>Eleanor starts singing showtunes. > >> > >> > > > >"Show tunes"? > >I thought it was Ray Stevens.
What I'd posted was: "I want to sing and dance I want to sing and dance I wanna be a pirate in 'The Pirates of Penzance' With me silver-buckled slippers ..." While "The Pirates of Penzance" was by Gilbert & Sullivan, "The Pirate Song" as quoted is by Ray Stevens. (The chorus -- above -- is to the tune of "the Hokey Pokey" by the way.) Agree G&S probably worse than "show tunes" ... Though I know people (okay, at least one person) who enjoy Gilbert & Sullivan AND show tunes, and Sullivan did write one of the best hymn tunes ever. Ray Stevens is in yet a different class. ERNR
