Here's another classic from the same era. Are there others?

Thread #5259   Message #30118
Posted By: Joe Offer
05-Jun-98 - 06:05 AM
Thread Name: Tech: Digital Tradition in Windows
Subject: Lyr Add: ZIP (Rodgers & Hart)

Dick, I think this is the song you were thinking of:

ZIP
Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
Music by Richard Rodgers
from the 1940 musical "Pal Joey"

Verse
I've interviewed Leslie Howard.
I've interviewed Noel Coward.
I've interviewed the great Stravinsky.
But my greatest achievement
Is the interview I had
With a star who worked for Minsky.
I met her at the Yankee Clipper
And she didn't unzip one zipper.
I said, "Miss Lee, you are such an artist.
Tell me why you never miss.
What do you think of while you work?"
And she said, "While I work
My thoughts go something like this."

Refrain 1
Zip! Walter Lippman wasn't brilliant today.
Zip! Will Saroyan ever write a great play?
Zip! I was reading Schopenhauer last night.
Zip! And I think that Schopenhauer was right.
I don't want to see Zorina.
I don't want to meet Cobina.
Zip! I'm an intellectual.
I don't like a deep contralto,
Or a man whose voice is alto.
Zip! I'm a heterosexual.
Zip! It took intellect to master my art.
Zip! Who the hell is Margie Hart?

Refrain 2
Zip! I consider Dali's paintings passé.
Zip! Can they make the Metropolitan pay?
Zip! English people don't say clerk, they say clark.
Zip! Anybody who says clark is a jark!
I have read the great Kabala
And I simply worship Allah.
Zip! I am just a mystic.
I don't care for Whistler's Mother,
Charlie's Aunt or Schubert's brother.
Zip! I'm misogynistic.
Zip! My intelligence is guiding my hand.
Zip! Who the hell is Sally Rand?

Refrain 3
Zip! Toscanini leads the greatest of bands.
Zip! Jergen's Lotion does the trick for his hands.
Zip! Rip Van Winkle on the screen would be smart.
Zip! Tyrone Power would be cast in the part.
I adore the great Confucius
And the lines of luscious Lucius.
Zip! I am so eclectic.
I don't care for either Mickey –
Mouse or Rooney make me sicky!
Zip! I'm a little hectic.
Zip! My artistic taste is classic and dear.
Zip! Who the hell's Lili St. Cyr?

Alternate verses include:
I've interviewed Pablo Picasso/and a countess named di Frasso
Hearing rhumba bands will drive me to drink/Mrs Perkins isn't red, she's just pink.
That Stokowski leads the greatest of bands.
My artistic taste is classic and choice/Who the hell's Rosita Royce?

I would like to add that I'm not old enough to understand all of the names in this song.
-Joe Offer-