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Subject: I Wish I Were In Love Again Rodgers & Hart From: keberoxu Date: 08 Apr 21 - 08:09 PM Hopefully a kind Mud-elf can get the songwriters into the thread title, my own data entry doesn't have enough spaces for both their names. Richard Rodgers, music, and Lorenz Hart, lyrics, this song was from their Broadway musical Babes in Arms circa 1937. When filmed in Hollywood, the musical had this song cut from it. Later on, when Lorenz ("Larry") Hart had died and the story of his life was turned into a musical biopic (I forget the title of the film) with the likes of Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, and Mickey Rooney, the latter two film stars performed a duet version for the film. The initial publisher was Chappell & Co.; today there is an Estate for the Richard Rodgers catalog which includes this song in its many copyrights. I WISH I WERE IN LOVE AGAIN (Rodgers & Hart) the one and only verse You don't know that I felt good, when we up and parted. You don't know I knocked on wood, gladly broken-hearted. Worrying is through: I sleep all night, Appetite and health restored. You don't know how much I'm BORED. the first of two full choruses: initial chorus tune The sleepless nights, the daily fights, The quick toboggan when you reach the heights; I miss the kisses, and I miss the bites -- I WISH I WERE IN LOVE AGAIN. The broken dates, the endless waits, The lovely loving, and the hateful hates, The conversation with the flying plates -- I WISH I WERE IN LOVE AGAIN. chorus bridge tune No more pain, No more strain, I'm all sane, now -- But I would rather be ga-ga! reprise of initial chorus tune The pulled-out fur of cat and cur, The fine mismating of a Him and Her; I've learned my lesson -- but, I wish I were in love again. second, and final, full chorus The furtive sigh, the blackened eye, The words, "I'll love you 'til the day I die", The self-deception that believes the lie: I WISH I WERE IN LOVE AGAIN. When love congeals, it soon reveals The faint aroma of performing seals; The double-crossing of a pair of heels -- I WISH I WERE IN LOVE AGAIN. chorus bridge tune No more care, No despair, I'm all there now -- But I would rather be punch-drunk! initial chorus tune, for the last time Believe me, sir, I much prefer The classic battle of a Him and Her: I don't like quiet, and I wish I were in love again. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Wish I Were In Love Again Rodgers & Ha From: keberoxu Date: 08 Apr 21 - 08:12 PM This is one of those occasions in which Lorenz Hart took his lyrical skills to the limit, and Richard Rodgers tactfully got out the lyricist's way and came up with a serviceable, but not distracting, setting. So the tune isn't much, and there aren't all that many chords. My first encounter with this song was a performance by the team of Joan Morris, singer, and her husband William Bolcom, piano, and they rocked the house with this one -- I can still hear the laughter from the audience. Nothing trad or folk about this, but it is a lyric that I quote with pleasure in mixed company. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Wish I Were In Love Again Rodgers & Ha From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 08 Apr 21 - 09:06 PM Thank You, Powerfilled lyrics with gut hitting meter. Never encountered it before. Sincerely, Gargoyle It is hard to imagine laughter ... this is a bare-knuckles blood bout. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Wish I Were In Love Again Rodgers & Ham From: keberoxu Date: 09 Apr 21 - 12:51 PM New York cabaret/club style: Margaret Whiting and Elaine Stritch live onstage |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Wish I Were In Love Again Rodgers & Ham From: keberoxu Date: 09 Apr 21 - 08:09 PM Or maybe you would prefer a big-band arrangement with the very sophisticated-sounding (AND -looking) Carmen McRae. |
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