the 14th of July
Date: Sun Jul 14 01:45:53 EDT 2019
If this looks familiar, I posted it 5 years ago. Happy Bastille Day!I'm not as often amazed now by what can be found on the Internet. But I'm sometimes amazed by things that cannot be found on the Internet. There was a reference to "July 14" in my email, and because of a song from a high-school operetta I immediately associate the date with Bastille Day. (While perfectly reasonable, this is not a common American response.) The lyrics of "It Is the Fourteenth of July" (I guess you can all see the association. ☺) do not seem to be on the Internet. I'm assuming that the controllers of the Gershwins' estate are vigourously pursuing their copyrights and keeping the texts off of webservers. ☹It is the 14th of July,
A day we always celebrate.
To all our cares we say "Goodbye,"
The country side is all "en fête."
It's a jolly day, not a melancholy day,
While we're making holiday, all our troubles fly!
To all our cares we say goodbye,
Upon the 14th of July.
40 45(?) years ago, and I still remember it. (I also remember it as being in F; if that's correct give me extra points.)
Do you think they'll hunt me down for posting this? I think my journals are not supposed to be indexed by search engines, so nothing should direct them here.
What I could find on the web:
PrimroseOpened at the Winter Garden Theatre, London on September 11, 1924. 255 performances. Music by George Gershwin. Lyrics by Desmond Carter and Ira Gershwin. Book by George Grossmith and Guy Bolton.
In the wake of the tumultuous reception given to RHAPSODY IN BLUE in February 1924 and his last score for GEORGE WHITE'S SCANDALS in June, George Gershwin found himself once again in London, this time to work on PRIMROSE, a musical comedy for the English comedian, Leslie Henson. PRIMROSE proved a great success, and included the first publication of a Gershwin full score, though the show was so thoroughly English that it never had an American run.
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/1077567.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
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If this looks familiar, I posted it 5 years ago. Happy Bastille Day!I'm not as often amazed now by what can be found on the Internet. But I'm sometimes amazed by things that cannot be found on the Internet. There was a reference to "July 14" in my email, and because of a song from a high-school operetta I immediately associate the date with Bastille Day. (While perfectly reasonable, this is not a common American response.) The lyrics of "It Is the Fourteenth of July" (I guess you can all see the association. ☺) do not seem to be on the Internet. I'm assuming that the controllers of the Gershwins' estate are vigourously pursuing their copyrights and keeping the texts off of webservers. ☹It is the 14th of July,
A day we always celebrate.
To all our cares we say "Goodbye,"
The country side is all "en fête."
It's a jolly day, not a melancholy day,
While we're making holiday, all our troubles fly!
To all our cares we say goodbye,
Upon the 14th of July.
40 45(?) years ago, and I still remember it. (I also remember it as being in F; if that's correct give me extra points.)
Do you think they'll hunt me down for posting this? I think my journals are not supposed to be indexed by search engines, so nothing should direct them here.
What I could find on the web:
PrimroseOpened at the Winter Garden Theatre, London on September 11, 1924. 255 performances. Music by George Gershwin. Lyrics by Desmond Carter and Ira Gershwin. Book by George Grossmith and Guy Bolton.
In the wake of the tumultuous reception given to RHAPSODY IN BLUE in February 1924 and his last score for GEORGE WHITE'S SCANDALS in June, George Gershwin found himself once again in London, this time to work on PRIMROSE, a musical comedy for the English comedian, Leslie Henson. PRIMROSE proved a great success, and included the first publication of a Gershwin full score, though the show was so thoroughly English that it never had an American run.
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/1077567.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]