OT: Singing in a dialect and "Authentic pronunciation"

[Jonathan Lighter]

I was thinking of it as I wrote, but no, I can't.

Yul Brynner sang it in his Yul Brynner accent, i.e. Russian-American.

JL

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 10/18/2010 04:30 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >A puzzlement.
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> And, John, can you sing that?  In the appropriate dialect?  From The
> King and I (as I assume Jon knew) -- do Yul doing Siamese.
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> Joel
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