| re: Calling Cards and Easter Eggs | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 08:16 pm EDT 05/03/24 | |
| In reply to: Calling Cards and Easter Eggs - DCollingwood 12:36 pm EDT 05/03/24 | |
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| The Gershwin brothers' song "I Got Rhythm" was a huge mega-hit in its day. And Ira ran with its last lyric, "who could ask for anything more?" in two other songs. One, another standard, "Nice Work if You Can Get It," where the bridge ends with that lyric. The other quote was in the more obscure "I'm About To Be A Mother" from Of Thee I Sing," where the First Lady announces that she's is "about to have a baby...to love and adore. / Who could ask for anything more?" Larry Hart was also famous for references to his own work. In his last song, "To Keep My Love Alive," one of Morgan Le Fay's doomed husbands meets his maker when "his heart stood still - angina pectoris." Vera Simpson in Pal Joey, in her big song "Bewitched," first describes her sexual awakening this way, "I'm in love, and don't I show it / like a babe in arms." Kander, of course, left another possible "Easter Egg" in the song "I Miss The Music" from Curtains, where the music at one point quotes the iconic vamp to the song "Wilkommen," as the character of composer Aaron Fox describes how he and his partner used to write songs. |
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