ADS-L Digest - 6 Mar 2006 to 7 Mar 2006 (#2006-67)

George Thompson george.thompson at NYU.EDU
Fri Mar 10 16:09:45 UTC 2006


I hope you have Louis' version.  After it, no one needed to have
bothered to sing it again.  His was also very long, and must have
included every verse.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arnold M. Zwicky" <zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Friday, March 10, 2006 10:48 am
Subject: Re: ADS-L Digest - 6 Mar 2006 to 7 Mar 2006 (#2006-67)

> On Mar 9, 2006, at 9:17 AM, Geoff Nathan wrote, re "olden days":
>
> > Cole Porter's song 'Anything Goes' (from the show of the same name)
> > beings:
> >
> > In olden days a glimpse of stocking
> > Was looked on as something shocking
> > But now, God knows,
> > Anything Goes.
>
> speaking of Cole Porter, i've been assembling a playlist of versions
> of "Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love".  (i have a pile of these
> juxtaposition playlists.)  so far: Noel Coward, Ella Fitzgerald, Mary
> Martin. Ella again in a different mood, Billie Holiday, Lee Wiley,
> Greg Graffin/Joan Jett with a rock version, and the incomparable
> Susannah McCorkle with a really long version (six minutes).
> everybody has (somewhat-to-wildly) different words.
>
> i was startled to hear that the Mary Martin and Billie Holiday
> versions, both from the early 40s, begin with: "Chinks do it, Japs do
> it".  well, it was a different time.  those were the olden days, i
> guess.
>
> arnold
>
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