Origins: They Call the Wind Mariah (Lerner/Loewe)

Subject: RE: Help: Origins of They Call the Wind Maria
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 05:06 AM

English prison wagons too.

Subject: RE: Help: Origins of They Call the Wind Maria
From: Genie
Date: 18 Aug 09 - 07:17 PM

Wendy, I'm only partially familiar with the musical "The Most Happy Fella" (about Fiorello LaGuardia, right?), but I can't figure out how "They Call The Wind Maria" would fit into it. Can you 'splain more?Rick Fielding - PM
Date: 01 May 00 - 01:50 AM

Also, just a little comment on something Rick Fielding posted way back in 2000:

[[It always struck me as typical of those "straight composer" attempts to write something that sounded like (their idea of) a folksong. ...
Generally these composers would ALWAYS use altered chords, but not in their "folk" songs.
Other songs of that ilk that come to mind, that some think are actual folksongs are: Greenfields, Green Leaves Of Summer, ... Love Me Tender ...]]
"Love Me Tender," of course, uses the US Civil War era tune "Aura Lee."

Subject: RE: Help: Origins of They Call the Wind Maria
From: GUEST,Carolyn
Date: 19 Jul 10 - 04:28 PM

Well young people don't know who wrote it but I heard it when I was a kid in the 50's & it was sung by Frankie Lane. It was a bug hit back then.   The spelling is Mariah. Hope that helps.

Subject: RE: Help: Origins of They Call the Wind Maria
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 19 Jul 10 - 06:49 PM

Hmm, so long since this tread has been touched--but never fear, JotSC to put everything right.

Wind (notice how I avoid the Maria/Mariah controversy) is from Paint Your Wagon by Lerner and Loewe. SRS, in 2007, was correct that the renditions by Marvin and Eastwood were winceble. I saw a much better production at a theatre-in the-round venue a few months before seeing the film.

Most Happy Fella was written by Loesser. It takes place in the Napa Valley wine country. The two best remembered songs from the show are Standin' on the Corner (Watching All the Girls Go Bye), and Joey (or Joey, Joey). Travis Edmonson of Bud and Travis recorded that song.

Finally, the musical about Fiorello LaGuardia is simply titled Fiorello. Tom Bosley of Happy Days fame was the original Little Flower.

Subject: RE: Help: Origins of They Call the Wind Maria
From: Joe Offer
Date: 19 Jul 10 - 07:54 PM

Well, unlike John (who is far more well-mannered than I), I'll jump right into the Maria/Mariah controversy. While the name is pronounced "Mariah," the song title is registered with the Harry Fox Agency as "They Call the Wind Maria," written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe.

-Joe Offer in the California Gold Country, setting for Paint Your Wagon-

Subject: RE: Help: Origins of They Call the Wind Maria
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 19 Jul 10 - 09:00 PM

ASCAP catalogues it as Mariah, why I don't know-

They Call the Wind Mariah
Work ID: 500057987
ISWC: T0701794979
Writers:
Lerner, Alan Jay
Loewe, Frederick
Performers- most everybody.
Variations:
They Call the Wind Maria
Vent S'appelle Maria
They Call the Wind Mariah (Paint Your Wagon)

Publishers/Administrators:
Chappell Co. Inc. % Warner Chappell Music Inc.

The original stage production (1951) song title was: They Call the Wind Maria
The soundtrack of the film (1969) also has the title as They Call the Wind Maria.

To add confusion, 'Mariah' is a variant of Miriam.

Subject: RE: Origins: They Call the Wind Mariah (Lerner/Loewe)
From: GUEST,kingston trio and they call the wind maria
Date: 07 May 11 - 09:50 PM

Subject: RE: Origins: They Call the Wind Mariah (Lerner/Loewe)
From: GUEST,Daddyo in AB.
Date: 07 Nov 11 - 12:56 PM

This has all been very interesting & humorous, but Im still short of a song to play for a dutch guy in the nursing home where our band plays regularly. I guess what we'll have to do is learn how to play Kretchblatt for him. Now , how do you pronounce it?

Subject: RE: Origins: They Call the Wind Mariah (Lerner/Loewe)
From: GUEST
Date: 16 May 16 - 11:38 PM

Yeah - It was "Partner" (Clint Eastwood ) who sang it in the movie.

Subject: RE: Origins: They Call the Wind Mariah (Lerner/Loewe)
From: GUEST,Max
Date: 22 May 21 - 10:47 PM

I have been reading a copy of the Aramaic Interlinear New Testament and the name of God is pronounced Maria. I found that curious.

Subject: RE: Origins: They Call the Wind Mariah (Lerner/Loewe)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 May 21 - 11:47 PM

Hi, Max - sounds interesting, but I wonder if that's correct. In the Hebrew Bible, the word used for the Tetragrammaton (YHWH) is Hashem. And in general the Aramaic name for God is Allah or Alaha.

Moriah, the Temple Mount, was the site where Abraham planned to make a human sacrifice of his son, Isaac.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_God_in_Judaism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetragrammaton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allah

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moriah