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GUEST,Ken Brock	Songs About Disease (99* d)	RE: Songs About Disease	08 Dec 13
Form the Broadway and London stage corner: "Adelaide's Lament", from Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls is about a cold, grippe and various respiratory tract symptoms. "That is the End of the News" by Noel Coward, from Sigh No More manages to mention varicose veins, boils, kidney stones, shingles and blisters. Apparently Coward never recorded it (Joyce Grenfell did) and a slightly abridged performance by Tom Lehrer is on youtube. "Freud and Jung and Adler", from the Gershwin brothers' Pardon My English (1933), mentions mumps, cirrhosis of the liver, appendicitis, laryngitis and mental issues. Leonard Bernstein's CANDIDE in various versions has had two different syphilis songs. "Dear Boy" is on the 1988 version on DGG, and "Ringaroundaroise" (possibly not used) is included in the 2000 John Latouche revue Taking a Chance on Love

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