Re: AGYG Cactus? revisited (Re: JULIE ANDREWS: original song)

Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 21:05:01 GMT
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre.musicals
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robert armstrong wrote:
> The "candle in the wind" song(s) remind(s) me of the thread about
> anomalies in song of a few weeks back.
>
> I can think of examples that are not musical-comedy related:
>
> The above-mentioned Taupin/Dame Elton song says that Marilyn is like a
> candle because she doesn't cling to people when it's raining and the
> wind is blowing. According to this logic she is also like a hat, an
> automobile, a bowl of cornflakes...
>
> A song by Bob Dylan says that Reuben "Huricane" Carter was convicted by
> an all-white jury, implying that it happened __because__ there was an
> all-white jury, but later in the same song he says that "all" the black
> people in America thought he was guilty anyway.
>
> Rod Stewart's Mandolin Wind says "Coldest winter in almost fifteen
> years": winters occur at one year intervals. If the last coldest winter
> was fourteen and three-quarter years ago it wouldn't be winter, it would
> be the following spring.
>
> I know, they're good songs anyway. Others?
>
A tune that's not so good is "Endless Love," which I call The Redundant
Song because of its recurring lyric "You'll *always* be my *endless* love."
I suppose it could be worse. Lionel Richie (or whoever) could've worked
in "forever" and "eternally".
(Just heard it at a wedding, which also used another common tune that I
find puzzling as a wedding song, "Unchained Melody". That was written
for a film about a guy in prison -- with the prominent line "Are you
still mine?" -- then became popular again in "Ghost," in which Patrick
Swayze was *dead*. I guess couples who adopt it as their song don't pay
any attention to the lyrics.)