wouldve voted Rock Island over Trouble maaaybe on 2nd thought
missed that WFW was a choice, which we were forced to sing in school. and i got me a grey mackinaw.
have never seen the film or heard the whole score btw
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 October 2015 00:28 (eight years ago) link
Shipoopi got two more votes than Rock Island.
My faith in humanity is shattered. I will crawl into the corner and weep now.
― SlimAndSlam, Friday, 9 October 2015 00:44 (eight years ago) link
might well have voted rock island if i'd voted
― it's not a tuomas (benbbag), Friday, 9 October 2015 04:55 (eight years ago) link
Missed this but only posting to say that on video somewhere in my keeping, on unconverted VHS (so far) is me in my high school production of this as Mayor Shinn.
Thankfully, a non-singing role.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, October 8, 2015 8:27 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
needs to be screened at the world fap video festival
― it's not a tuomas (benbbag), Friday, 9 October 2015 04:56 (eight years ago) link
Macca was only familiar with the Peggy Lee version and was unaware of The Music Man.
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, October 4, 2015 3:33 PM (5 days ago)
i'm pretty sure there's a live version of the song from the early days, probably on the early anthology, where paul introduces it as "a song from the music man."
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 9 October 2015 05:01 (eight years ago) link
hmm, will have to hunt that one..
Anyway:
Should have titled this thread "Trouble with a Capital T and That Rhymes with P and That Stands for POLL!"
Now it can be said: I didn't go with this one because I didn't think of it I honestly thought it would give too much prominence to one song that would be a front-runner so I went for something more, um, um, less obv. I guess.
― Mark G, Friday, 9 October 2015 06:25 (eight years ago) link
Why was this polled? Seems pretty random. Was that the point?
― Stevolende, Friday, 9 October 2015 09:10 (eight years ago) link
I don't know why it came into my mind, but it seemed like one of those things that still has some sort of recognition factor in modern parlance, "We got trouble, right here in River City" - Maybe it actually doesn't and I am lol old. Or maybe we all are.
I guess, Random thought was the origin, maybe the point, your mileage etc.
― Mark G, Friday, 9 October 2015 09:18 (eight years ago) link
Also, Polls tend to not be old-stuff.
wtf why?
In 1957, the show became a hit on Broadway, winning five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and running for 1,375 performances. The cast album won the first Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album and spent 245 weeks on the Billboard charts. The show's success led to revivals and a popular 1962 film adaptation and a 2003 television remake. It is frequently produced by both professional and amateur theater companies.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 October 2015 11:58 (eight years ago) link
Why was Sgt. Pepper's polled? Seems pretty random.
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Friday, 9 October 2015 13:56 (eight years ago) link
Hah. I played Harold Hill in my senior musical! Can't believe "Marian the Librarian" and "Sadder-but-Wiser Girl" didn't do better.
― J, Friday, 9 October 2015 20:14 (eight years ago) link
Off topic, I saw a great production of "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" last night. It's a way better show than "The Music Man" but doesn't have nearly as many catchy songs.
― J, Friday, 9 October 2015 20:16 (eight years ago) link
Paul totally does this in the concert for the Queen: McCartney introduced the next song, 'Till There Was You' from the play The Music Man, as having also been 'recorded by our favorite American group, Sophie Tucker'—an apparent joke about her size, something Tucker often joked about herself.
― J, Friday, 9 October 2015 20:24 (eight years ago) link
can't listen to the video here but i note that the words "from the play The Music Man" aren't part of the quotation there. I remember the Sophie Tucker bit from the Beatles Anthology use of the clip though.
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Friday, 9 October 2015 21:48 (eight years ago) link
nobody told me there was cagney talk in here
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 11 October 2015 09:06 (eight years ago) link
Cagney also had great comic timing when needed
understatement of the medium
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 11 October 2015 09:09 (eight years ago) link
the bit in the public enemy where a henchman enters unannounced and cagney rises unnoticed and gets in position to blackjack him, then sits down as smoothly when the need doesn't arise
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 11 October 2015 09:13 (eight years ago) link
the pro-actor-playing-amateur-actor climax of angels w dirty faces, where we perceive him as over the top but the kids don't
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 11 October 2015 09:18 (eight years ago) link
sry for fascist kael we
My kid's school just did The Music Man. It's been years since I've seen the movie. "Trouble" is of course the one that sticks out, but "Rock Island" is totally stuck in my head this morning.
― Their all losers and I like associating with loser (Dan Peterson), Monday, 14 November 2016 18:04 (seven years ago) link
Of course! Trump!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 18:04 (seven years ago) link
Rock Island is the shit, what an amazing opener. The whole thing is full of great songs though. I saw this for the first time in probably 35 years when my wife and I watched it with our soon. She’s seen it twenty times by her count, always with her mom. Lots of unexpected emotion throughout, usually at the barbershop quartet moments which are just unusually affecting for whatever reason. It’s a tough trick to make Harold Hill sympathetic since he doesn’t reveal sincerity until the end but Preston manages to do it, just with that brief moment at the bridge fantasizing about conducting a band.
― omar little, Sunday, 8 December 2019 22:03 (four years ago) link