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November 04, 2009
He wrote hundreds of songs, but if you had to pick one, and it would be tough, maybe you’d choose this one.
“Moon River…
Maybe.
The original song he wrote, with Henry Mancini, for “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” was originally titled “Blue River.” Glad he changed it.
Simple words. You probably know them by heart.
…wider than a mile, I'm crossing you in style one day.
Moon River is actually the name of a stream that runs out of the Vernon River, near where he was from. In a child’s eyes, it must have looked huge. As everything does.
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker, wherever you're going I'm going your way.
He wrote "Lazybones" about a guy who did nothing. Unlike himself, who compulsively got up every morning to turn out words like these:
Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see.
We're after the same rainbow's end--waiting 'round the bend,
my huckleberry friend, Moon River and me. “
Lots of interpretation of "huckleberry friend." Was it about one of his idols, Mark Twain, and his adventure lover river lad, Huck? His wife Ginger explains it:
“He and his friends would enjoy spending time in the early summers picking wild huckleberries. This is where my huckleberry friend came from, just Johnny as a little boy.”
Supposedly, a Paramount Pictures executive suggested deleting the song, first heard here, from the film immediately after the successful San Francisco preview.
Audrey Hepburn might have been waif-like but her reaction was anything but.
The song stayed. The executive went.
The writer, of course, is Johnny Mercer. There’s a new book, "The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer" and a Clint Eastwood documentary, "The Dreams on Me", to celebrate his centennial, which is this month.
The man who wrote "Over the Rainbow", E.Y. Harburg said of the Savannah born Mercer, "He was America's folk poet." Frank, after singing this one, might agree.
"You'd never know it,
But, Buddy I'm a kind of poet
And I've got a lot of things to say."
And how do you top these lyrics from one of my favorites, "I'm Old fashioned."
"The sound of rain
Upon a window pane...
This year's fancies
Are passing fancies
But sighing sighs holding hands
These my heart understands."
You don't have to be old fashioned for Mercer to affect you. You just have to have a heart.
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How to express "the inarticulate speech of the heart"? Johnny Mercer. Few men could do with lyric...
-Penn
Nov. 04, 2009 11:32 PM
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Breakfast at Tiffany's & Audrey Hapburn have enjoy a great cultural rebirth in the last few years. And most people say the saddest aprt of that film is either where the news about her brother arrives or the ending..
Yet for me its the Moon River Scene, in that moment in the first few notes of the song you realize that these are the seemingly 2 most lonely people in the world at the moment. Mercer in many of his lyrics, captured the essence of speaking to peoples hearts with music. It doesn't happen often to song writers & even less often for the artists that record the songs. Yet Johnny Mercer always seemed to be able to do so.
Johnny Mercer did some Great Stuff, and I have always liked his Music ... But I am REALLY a Big Cole Porter Fan .......
Like that final moment of darkness before dawn, Johnnny Mercer's lyrics capture the ephemeral meloncholy that desends before discovering either a loss or a love.
My very favorite interpretor of "Moon River" is Vic Damone. One year my husband gave me a subscription to XM satellite radio (now Sirreus) & the Frank Sinatra channel is all I listen to. When I first heard Vic Damone's version I started weeping because it was so beautiful. He brings out all the loneliness, melencholy, and the sadness of lost youth and innocence. It still stuns me whenever I hear it.
It's an interesting song- because depending on who sings it it has many different moods.
Have a lovely day all...
Songs you could sing; words you understood reflecting emotions other than anger -- what a beautiful legacy.
The best part of this deal is that it has got me to thinking about Hoagy Carmichel.
"Star Dust;" "Ole Buttermilk Sky;" "Geargia"? No, "Lazybones", that's what will be going through my mind this afternoon as we cruise down the Hudson River Valley lower and lower into the long shadows.
It's vacation and we don't: Spec to get our day's work done, not for awhile. Perfect.
That would be melancholy w/ an a...
morning all! tonight on tcm
Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me (2009)
Archival footage and new clips trace the career of the famed lyricist.
Jalopkin - I hope you'll accept this comment in the friendly spirit it was intended....
if you and I can agree on seomthing this important - that Cole Porter is the cat's pajamas- then Christian and Muslim can live together in peace.
I have a really neat CD called 'Cole sings Porter,' where he sings his own stuff. The martinis practically flow from the speakers.....pure pleasure.
Mercer was awfully great, too. We sing 'Moon River' every time we're in Savannah sailing. The road to the yacht club is Johnny Mercer Boulevard.
>>>Supposedly, a Paramount Pictures executive suggested deleting the song, first heard here, from the film immediately after the successful San Francisco preview. <<< We forget that the bureaucrat mentality is extant everywhere, both in private and public arenas. In sales lingo, there are a variety of names for people who have no good ideas but find a sense of self-importance by 'gumming up the works' and blocking other folks positive moves. (Most are not repeatable here.) I often wonder what happens to these folks once they hit their 60s....
Are there any other Jerome Kern fans out there? As a fifth grader, our Welsh-born choir director had our group singing LOTS of those tunes. Even though I couldn't sing (I was the original Millie Vanilli), I liked to lip synch along.... Among other Kern songs: Ol Man River, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, The Way You Look Tonight, and others....
Oh, and then (of course!) Irving Berlin. We sang (well, errr, they sang) Easter Parade, harkening back to a time before Easter got relegated to bench-warmer status along with Cinco de Mayo, Groundhog Day, Arbor Day, and so on..... I won't even try to list the Irving Berlin other than to mention a few highlights: White Christmas, Puttin On the Ritz, and God Bless America (and bless Kate Smith!). Here's a list of his work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Irving_Berlin_songs
About 10 years ago my husband and I, with some trepidation, booked a gig to play WWII music for an Elderhostel group (prior to this date, we had played their Civil War, Irish Tea, and American Folk events, which were much more our "style") We had so much fun learning all that material, but Accuentuate the Positive really did it for me. We still perform it.
Such sophisticated music; such articulate and clever lyrics. I look forward to seeing the documentary.
Hey Doc ~ I love 'em all ~ give me a Mercer, Porter, Berling, Kern,Gershwin songbook anyday & I would be completely happy. Sometimes I think I was born in the wrong era.....
Great music transcends time and generations. Moon River is a great song. Poetic lyrics, lovely melody, perfectly singable.
Whenever people (including myself) start waxing nostalgic for the days when music was really good, I hark back to something my mom pointed out. The reason that all "vintage" music is so good is that we only hear the greatest hits. The dross melts into oblivion. (Well, most of it... she was devastated when Wake Up Little Susie made it back onto the charts in the 70s.)
There is always good music being written. But it is sent out there to swim with all the junk, and it takes time to sort out the worthwhile from the... not.
Count me in as a HUGE Jerome Kern fan. Does anybody remember Frank Loesser (Guys and Dolls and 6 other Broadway shows)?
Moon river. Been part of my life as long as I can remember. Benn one of my favorite songs for just as long. Thanks for highlighting it and making my day a little brighter.
I think I may be too young for today's topic. When I think about a song called "Breakfast at Tiffany's, this is what my mind heads toward:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcmH1LdPNKA
Perhaps I have been stunted.
I'm with Ivan-Cole Porter was the Boss! Hoagy is my number two. His turn in To Have and Have Not was SO COOL! The epitome of the barfly pianist...
But wait-there's more!
The Gershwins, Lerner and Lowe, Berlin, Kern, more more more. I love those tunes, and I loved hearing Fred Astaire sing them. He was a quirky guy, but I've always had a huge crush on him. And did anyone EVER look better in a tux?
The Way You Look Tonight
They Can't Take That Away From Me
Let's Face The Music And Dance
Nice Work If You Can Get It
Call Me Irresponsible
Cheek to Cheek
Night and Day
One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)
And DANCING omg...with a guy in a suit or even a tux? THAT'S what I call a great evening out. A nice dinner, dancing, conversation, champagne, and this music for the soundtrack.
It doesn't get much better...or rarer. *sigh*
Things seem so much cruder now. Maybe it's just me.
I had the opportunity to do a bit of torch singing with a small combo, sometime back in the mist. Still have the gowns...I guess I could wear them to do the hoovering.
Kristina, you are right -- I remember the fifties very well, and "Moon River" and many of the other songs mentioned here today were considered "popular" music, but the really respected music was classical -- Mozart, Chopin and the like. I love Mozart and "Moon River," but I also love the Beatles and Coldplay, not to mention Willie Nelson!
"Fairy tales can come true, it could happen to you, if You're Young at Heart... Johnny Mercer's best, especially when sung by Jimmy Durante.
Eighth grade dances and the tallest guy in the class dancing on his knees with me....the shortest to "Moon River!" I was miserable in that school (socially) and I remember that dance as if it was yesterday. How kind he was!
And then the were the Duke and then The Duchess of Earl. My parakeet learned an Australian song.."Tie me Kangaroo Down Sports" or something like that.
Michael: I like you feel outclassed and outgunned by the fluency of our virtual friends. With you, it is your youth that creates lack of familiarity. With me? Heck, perhaps my tastes just go in a different musical direction. However I do see the quality of the presentation being made for us today.
Thanks TimTam-love the Schnozzola!
Goodnight, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are!
I got a million of 'em!
Olivia: WOW! Cheek to cheek with a man in a tux...cannot even remember the last time that happened...
Whenever I think of classy dancing, I picture in my mind "Scent of a Woman," with Al Pachino waiting in the hotel's piano lounge area. Notwithstanding his blindness, Pachino detects the subtle aroma of exotic perfume, and he immediately cross-examines the young man he is mentoring, learning that his impressions of her are correct. The tango sequence I can visualize with my eyes closed, any time, any place. Then the jerk who is engaged to the young lady comes in, abruptly tugs her away to some nerdy party, and in her eyes you can see the evidence of her discovery. She now knows what a REAL man does to appreciate her beauty, both external & inside her soul....
Ah dancing cheek to cheek,you knew you were in love. That Old Black Magic, Dancing in the Dark, oh my such sweet memories. Bert you are right, the tango, you could smell the perfume, he saw more the her date.
My mother harbored a secret crush on Andy Williams for decades. His rendition of "Moon River" was a particular favorite: I recall her playing that track until the needle wore right through the grooves.
Her mother had briefly dated Hoagy Carmichael when they were undergrads at Indiana U back in the 20s. They remained friends for a long time; there may yet be letters in the family files.
There's nothing like the personal repertoire of songs we carry around in our memories to definitively date us. I'd be surprised if anybody under 50 has much memory of "Moon River" or any of the other songs mentioned; and the Jerome Kern and Cole Porter songbooks belong to another generation back of that.
Still, the classics endure. Not just songs, but people, and some cherished objects of desire as well.
Geri: Sometimes a sighted man takes for granted the beauty that is right before him, and it takes a vision-impaired man to immediately rejoyce in the treasure. I firmly believe that what each of us lacks in certain sensory abilities we find to be offset by keener perceptions in alternate intuitive awarenesses......but we all have the ability to use these gifts wisely, or to squander our natural resources, and wallow in self-pity.
...the tango...(wistful sigh)
Today is what happens when you wake up on thesepia train. Its all good, you can't go wrong....... "the best gesture of my brain is less than your eyelids flutter" e.e.c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WxDdz-Anls&feature=player_embedded
peace out......... and whatever you do, wherever you are...... stop, close your eyes, and listen to the music, don't just talk about it
thank you Mr. Peterman!
SHANDONISTA: We can agree certainly on, Cole Porter, and I welcome/Respect your correspondence ... As to Christians and Moslems, I shall reserve comment, as I have been stupid enough to make comment on things Politic in times past, and the only thing more stupid is to engage in a Religious discussion, on this Forum ... But, Cole Porter ??? You Betchum Red Ryder .......
Olivia: And I agree with you on all the others you mention ... remembering back to the days when Music was pleasant and NOT delivered at 500 Decibels (Except maybe for Wagner and Rossini ... and one or two pieces by Sibelius) Back when there was Body Contact between two people who were Dancing, and a Soto Voce conversation could be carried on quite easily between two people ....... And when so called, "Musicians" didn't look like Ozzy Osborne, Vince Furnier, or Gene Simmons ... Of course, we DID have, Spike Jones !!! but he certainly wasn't the norm ....... ( I like Simmons, just can't stand his Music ... but he has got to be on par with Sam Walton when it comes to Marketting ...)
STONEY: I am a BIG Hoagy Carmichael Fan too ... love his stuff, which is all marvelous, considering he was a Lawyer for years before he started into Music seriously ... My all time Hoagy Favorite is, "Huggin anna Chalkin' ..." Never knew a Girl named, Rosa Belle McGee, but I did know a gal named, IDA Belle McGee, in a little town called, Idabel , Oklahoma ... of course ... thats back when I still had hair .......
Michael ~ I'm with you. Way to young to get in on this conversation. However I do know about Henry Mancini; he wrote the theme song to the Pink Panther. How about we leave the older people to their music & discuss the glorious pre-Elmo days of Sesame Street which, coincedentally is 40 years old today.
cuukoo1 - Thanks for the TCM tip. Timing is everything..... well, quite a bit a least.
I've heard it said that if you watched Howdy Doody as a kid, you're a Boomer.
If you watched Captain Kangaroo, you're part of that late-Boom wave known as Generation Jones (technically still a Boomer, but culturally too young for Woodstock and Vietnam).
And if you watched Sesame Street, you are definitively GenX. Spending mornings with Big Bird and the Cookie Monster was the first mass cultural experience that set that generation apart in history. Congrats on the milestone.
I'm being cynical but sometimes it feels like romantic and hopeful music makes grim reality harder to bear. The same goes for romantic movies with happy endings. When you're mired in debt, medical bills, school loans, grubby jobs, illness, injury, and doubt...its the hopeful songs that make you shed the tears that have been held at bay all day...not because you feel like you'll get that happy ending but because it feels certain that you never will.
Nachista: For precisely your reasons, The Blues was invented.....
I do believe there should be a little room left over in this conversation for the lights to turn down low and listen to a little Johnny Rivers........ even if its just one song..that can float you away for just an instant, especially when you need it the most.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQOmW_TVPxI
Wow.
I'm in love with John Peterman all over again.
I was going to mention (cuukoo did, above) that tonight on TCM, "The Dreams on Me" is showing, a retrospective directed by Dirty Harry himself.
It's not to be missed, it's gonna make your day, I mean evening, I'm sure of it.
Thanks John Peterman! your taste is right in tune today!
Daniel you and Michael are both invited to our house tonight for milk and cookies while we all watch together, "The Dream's On Me."
I"M KIDDING my dear Dear Friend, no animus meant at all I'm just jokin.'
(On the other hand (isn't there always another hand?) it's never too early or too late to get to know Johnny Mercer, tho. And Cole Porter was way before my time, but I love his music and his sophisticated lyrics, the likes of which just isn't happening anymore. But that's just me, and a few million others who enjoy great musical stuff.
Hugs and Love, Gramma Park4)
Since no one else has commented on it, let me just say that the photograph at the top of this page is AWESOME! Anyone who has ever canoed, kayaked, or just gone swimming on a night like this knows what I mean!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_jqje0lZZ0
Daniel and Michael - this music is before my time, too, but I'm in total agreement with Gramma Park4 that it's never too late to enjoy the good stuff. None of us are too young for Mozart, right?
Shando~ re: mozart; how right you are. But part of me wonders about these moldy golden oldies if context is somewhat lost on our generation. Sure the music is nice, and we can take meaning from the lyrics, but without us actually experiencing the time-frame the music took place in, the actual point just all seems rather lost. (instrumental music being the exception of course).
I cannot wait until travel for ordinary tourists reopens to Cuba, the island where romance in dance is still percolating slowly below the surface, waiting to reemerge.
There is no valid reason why all of these lovely ladies should remain deprived of
their primal urge to move with the passion of the music.
Gramma Park~ thank you for the invitation; hopefully the train is on time tonight.
Thank you, Shandonista!
My intro to the musicals, Lerner and Lowe and the Gershwins and Cole Porter and Carmichael and............wow, the Big Bands -- I wasn't born yet, but a day wouldn't go by -- or two days definitely -- that this music wasn't played on the "record player" in our house.
My Dad was the Music Man in the house, and I listened and I heard, and when I was 7 he took me downtown to see my first musical at the Shubert Theater in Chicago, it was Annie Get Your Gun ("There's No Business Like Show Business") and after that, it was every new show at the Shubert, we had tickets. The same way some had season tickets to the Bears games, we had them for the Shubert, row 20 aisle, center. Saturday matinee.
It was too mah-velous for words. Which is, not coincidentally, the title of yet another Mercer song...
All this music, of course, led me to a lifetime lived with music playing in the background to my day to day life: it gave color to dreary days, and made bright days that much more so. And, when I needed to, music made me, allowed me, to cry, but not alone -- the music was there as companion.
Cole Porter, the Gershwins, Lerners and Lowes and Rogers and Harts and Hammersteins -- and Johnny Mercer too, last but surely not least -- their fascinating rhythms aren't of any particular time or place. Wherever you might hear their music, it's of that moment and none other, and written with just you in mind.
And how de-lovely that is, regardless of one's birthdate.
Daniel: A song, like all good art, will transcend its time, and take context within your life. If it moves you, it moves you. Billie Holiday singing Gershwin moves me as much as Janice Joplin singing Gershwin, and both ladies died before my birth.
Daniel, it's on time, it always is. I've oatmeal raisin cookies, but we'll skip the milk. I've been hiding this wonderful bottle of scotch. Oatmeal cookies and scotch whiskey? It probably wouldn't be the first time...I'll see you in the Club Car at 7 ish.
DAMSELFLY: You have GOT the Spirit !!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hrIUCOh9W8
Wow.
Another by Mr. Mercer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53sCut6XxZE
Make it one for my baby and one more for the road...
What didn't Johnny Mercer write?
I was born in the wrong era. My fantasy career would be as a longue singer cover Mercer, Kern, Porter, Gerswin, Berlin and Lerner and Lowe.
My father told me that my grandmother learned to improver her English by singing the standards.
Michael and Daniel, age has nothing to do with this. I've gotten little kids to love these songs. They especially love Young At Heart. These songs may not be top 40 but they are beautiful part of our American culture.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-rlECiW4BA&feature=player_embedded
Mr Robinson, Moon River without Andy Williams is like apple pie without the squeeze a kiss with out the cheese. Somewhere over the Rainbows has been hiding Mr. Mercer. The songs I knew the song witer...And until today I must say here's to you Mrs. Robinson, Jesus loves you more than you will know
You'd have to put this one of Mercer's up there: Fools rush in
Where wise men never go
But wise men never fall in love
So how are they to know
When we met
I felt my life begin
So open up your heart and let
This fool rush in
Just open up your heart and let
This fool rush in
Let open up your heart and let
Ths fool rush in
Does anyone remember the Harry Nilsson album A Little Touch of Shmilsson In The Night? He covered the old standards like As Time Goes By and Makin' Woopee.
My parents played that at every family gathering because it appealed to guests of every generation and you could sing along to it.
That may be the appeal of songs like Moon River, Accentuate the Positie and Young At Heart, you can sing along. My parents used to play music in the dinning room I tend to associate the standards, like Johnny Mercer, and show tunes with lasagna and Sunday dinners.
Park 4 ~ Thanks for posting the links. Those are two of my favorites.
Johnny Mercer is DEFINITELY no Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Julia Masi - I loved that album..... all of his stuff too (Nilsson)
GrammaPark4: It's not that I don't like older music . . . I just haven't heard that particular song or watched that movie (yet). I'll catch up.
like Remember... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzlI59fYhvw&feature=player_embedded
There's only one Johnny Mercer, just like there is only one Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.. Both were able to redefine their art form to capture the emotions of the day and speak to the hearts of future generations.
JULIA- After reading JALOPKIN"S glowing review of your post w/ the goldfish- I went back & found it. Brilliant! Is it my imagination or are you just blossoming like some crazy, beautiful flower on this site??? I enjoy your posts.
I had the pleasure of seeing Frank Sinatra in an outdoor concert in Cincinnati - probably in the late 80's. He was older, but I was in heaven & his delivery of "MY WAY" was a touch tired and melancholy -which only added to its beauty. I went w/ my mother which made it quite special.
KSS: No, Mercer's no Mozart. One clue is that they have different names.
Now, you walked right into that one...
Michael: I've never worried about you catching up. Nope, never you. I hope you enjoy the documentary, if you get a chance to see it.
Have a good evening, all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Xwl4oVnbhU
On one hand, the best music, whether it's Mercer or Mozart, is a kind of time travel. Classics become classics because they caught something unique to the atmosphere of the time, the scent of the rooms, the tone of the humor, the manners and mores that people lived by. You listen to Mozart, or Mercer -- and in an instant, if you let your eyes and ears relax just so, you can see and hear just a little bit of what it was like to have been in that place and time. You don't even have to speak German, or English, to feel this, which makes music even more sublime than literature in this regard.
On the other hand: classics also become classics because they speak to universals that transcend time and place. They remind you that even if they were all dressed up in different clothes and manners, the basic human desires and longings and thrills are pretty much the same around the world and down through time.
Wonder which of the tunes we're listening to today will still be hummed by our grandkids a century from now?
PARK- stop, you're killing me...
I am a huge fan of Cole Porter...especially "Night and Day"
I am a huge fan of Ray Noble...especially "The Very Thought of You"
I am a huge fan of Hoagy Carmichael...especially "Stardust"
I love Brooks Bowman's "East of the Sun, and West of the Moon"
I love Bart Howard's "Fly me to the Moon"
There's Gershwin, Berlin, Dorsey...oh, there are so many great songs and songwriters! They poured their very being into those meaningful lyrics and melodies that express our deepest emotions and speak to our hearts...dearly held memories...hopes...dreams...love...
Last night, I posted a song here at the Eye - "Dream" (When You're Feeling Blue) - music and words by Johnny Mercer: my husband is not what you would classify as a debonair sort of gentleman. He hates to wear a tux. He had a music teacher once ask him to stop singing, because he couldn't carry a tune and he was disrupting the class. He basically has no sense of rhythm and two left feet. I've only known him to attempt to dance twice in over 30 years. But, once, long ago, when I was awfully blue, he mustered up his courage (we hardly knew each other then), took me in his arms, and slowly moved me across the dance floor to that tune..."Dream, that's the thing to do. Dream, and they might come true"...and they did.
I can't help but feel that Johnny Mercer somehow knew all along that his words and music, mixed with the young at heart, would be pure magic. He wrote some wonderful songs. I love his "Day In, Day Out," "I Remember You," and "That Old Black Magic," but, for me, nothing will ever surpass the enchantment of that soft tune and simple word dream, dream, dream...
Oh, Kindlee, you just made me cry ....reading about your husband who mustered the courage to dance just to make you feel better. That's what it's all about.
Tonight I turn on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) and what's playing but "Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me".... strange coincidences.....
Oh KINDLEE, swoon... now that's a real man.
Mercer's music is among my favourites to dance to. "Moon River" is one of the loveliest waltzes and I and my partner often sing the words as we make our way around the dance floor.
Kindlee, you and I have the same taste in music. "Night and Day" is my most foavourite but Mercer's "Dream" comes a very close second. Dancingkatz
Fred Astair- Singin' in the Rain....dancing up the side of a building.....and....and Ginger Rogers, dancing right along with him backwards in HIGH HEELS music and dance,romance,manners.......where has it all gone...........
Lullabye of Broadway
And the covers of all these, by the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, and more recently, Harry Konic (SP?)
These are the songs we used to sing into the night as we rode the Yacht in the moonlight...one of the first things we found we had in common was our love of those classics...as she lay dieing in my arms, I sang to her I can't give you anything but love,baby.....now I'm moist in the eyeholes again....
How to express "the inarticulate speech of the heart"? Johnny Mercer. Few men could do with lyrics what he could. My Mom can belt out 'Moon River' better than Andy (In due respect). You've got to hear her.
Standing next to Cole Porter's piano at the Waldorf Astoria, I feel his presence ...definitely. Put that feeling into words...get Mercer on the line for me please... I'm going to need some help.
Here's to the people who capture the heart in lyrics...a formidable task.
more on the honor rollDancingkatz~ Welcome! Thank you for sharing your video with all of us. I enjoyed watching you whirl around the floor with your partner. Way to go!
It's caused a very pleasant ohrwurm to occur - "Hey there cutes, put on your dancin' boots, and come dance with me. Come dance with me, what an evenin' for some terpsichore!"