Someone recently suggested that the lyrics in my other blog is poetry. (click on the title to view it) I guess I thought that most people who were aquainted with music knew the words from these wonderful old standard type songs.
"Crazy" by Patsy Cline. My fave by her is actually "Sweet Dreams". She's a country cabaret singer with all the articulation and flow of a Billie Holliday or a Judy Garland don't you think? Such a vast native talent and without formal schooling. I like her so much I named my cat after her. (I've also had TS Eliot, Elizabeth I, and Willa Cather--all three, people of note!) There will only ever be one Patsy Cline.
"My Kitten the Folksinger"--a play on an Allan Sherman LP--another fave... "Twilight Time" which I know best as performed by The Platters. A tune without equal.
Marlene Dietrich--the dispassionate lament "Falling in Love Again". Mel Brooks did a spoof on it in "Blazing Saddles". Funny.
The Three Silly Kittens is a childhood favorite. I'm sure my mother got tired of reading it over and over. She probably had it memorized by the time I got tired of it.
I found it kind of amazing that these could be mistaken for my writing but I can't accept the compliment. So now there it is! Sure wish I could claim them.
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