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Thread #124554 Message #2751318
Posted By: GUEST,highlandman at work
23-Oct-09 - 04:38 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: What Was the Matter with Rachmaninov?
Subject: Lyr Req: What Was The Matter With Rachmaninov
Not folk, sorry, but I have an absolutely burning need to know this and you all are my best hope! Long ago my high school glee club sang an arrangement of a comic song that was more or less a parody of Rachmaninov's Prelude in C Sharp Minor. It started off with the words "What was the matter with Rachmaninov When he wrote his prelude? Surely of trouble he began enough With his ta-ra-ra..." I have found on the internet that it was written and recorded by a British duo called "Flotsam and Jetsam" but I can't find any trace of the words or sheet music. Anybody got any help? Thanks in advance (I will be off line all weekend so if anyone comes through, my thanks will be forthcoming but belated.) -Glenn