I should have realized that...
John Forbes wrote:
Gilbert would not have rhymed dance with Penzance!
John
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 08:18:37 -0600, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
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