The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #9518   Message #912880
Posted By: Genie
18-Mar-03 - 04:22 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: A Bushel and a Peck (Frank Loesser)
Subject: Tune/Chord Req: I love you a bushel and a peck
Egad! I posted this comment yesterday, and it seemed to go through just fine, but it's not here today! (This has been happening a lot in the last couple of months.)

Katherine, I saw the stage play at the "Municipal Opera" in St. Louis in the late 1950s, before I saw the movie. The only actor that's likely to be known to many Mudcatters 'of a certain age' was Sid Stone, who used to have a regular shtick as a street hustler on the old Milton Berle Texaco Show in the early days of TV. [ He'd start his routine with "Tell ya what I'm gonna do ...".} He played Nathan Detroit in the St. Louis production.]
The stage version has some songs that were cut from the movie. One of the best, I think, is the one that the elderly Salvation Army officer sings to Sarah Brown: "More I Cannot Wish You (Than To Wish You Find Your Love Today)."

Genie

PS, Beccy, if you PM me your phone #, I'll call and sing the tune into your voice mail. (The chords are pretty easy to figure out if you know the tune.) That would be faster than my trying to produce a MIDI.

Of course, if someone else wants to post an ABC or submit a MIDI ...