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Origins: having fun/making whoopee
| GUEST,Fred Miller | 23 Nov 02 - 05:51 PM | |
| Uncle_DaveO | 23 Nov 02 - 03:51 PM | |
| GUEST,Fred Miller | 22 Nov 02 - 08:35 PM | |
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Subject: RE: Origins: having fun/making whoopee From: GUEST,Fred Miller Date: 23 Nov 02 - 05:51 PM Yes, and I did find it in the dt some time ago, plus some discussion. I'm using something similar to that tune. It may be my mind playing tricks on me, or a coincidence of similar-sounding tunes, but I believe I did not write the line I'm using, but heard it somewhere. Maybe simply altered for a g-rating? I don't know. But I remember Etta James saying she had to do a version of Roll With Me Henry as Dance With Me Henry. Seems plausible? Anybody know? |
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Subject: RE: Origins: having fun/making whoopee From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 23 Nov 02 - 03:51 PM I'm not clear from your post whether you know this or not, but in the 30s "making whoopee" was sex, and thus the name of the famous and extremely popular Cole Porter(?), "Making Whoopee". Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: Origins: having fun/making whoopee From: GUEST,Fred Miller Date: 22 Nov 02 - 08:35 PM I've been doing a lyric for Thanksgiving using a line or two I believe I've heard before, but can't find in the dt. It's more or less like Making Whoopee, but the turnaround line instead is/was The greatest thing under the sun is having fun. Anyone else think they've heard something like that? It might've been The sweetest thing. It seems to me I got it somewhere, and I'd like to find it. Mine is for kids. Closest it gets to Making Whoopee is We all agree, with no dissention thankfully, it's our intention to give thanks for so many good things we love even some that we won't mention but the greatest thing under the sun is having fun. and then becomes my new additive rhyming game with kids, with the usual orange-rhyme business and my orange story we're thankful for apples, and thankful for oranges we're thanful for windows and doors we're thankful for the door-hinges, etc. thankful for spoons, thankful for forks too thankful for sparkling grape juice in bottles that don't need a corkscrew anyway. I think there's a song like that, somewhere. Help? |
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