East Side Story - the songs

Subject: East Side Story - the songs
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Sep 00 - 11:55 PM

I think the greatest, most sensitive and memorable song from East Side Story was "Beulah"....

BEULAH

Beulah
The most beautiful sound I've ever heard
Beulah
The most beautiful sound in the world in a single word
Beulah
BEULAH! BEULAH! BEULAH! I've just met a girl named Beulah
And suddenly that name will never be the same to me
Beulah
I've just kissed a girl named Beulah
And suddenly that name will never be the same to me
BEULAH!!!
Say it loud, it's like buzzards winging
Say it soft, it's like telephones ringing
I'll never stop singing...BEULAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

Subject: RE: East Side Story - the songs
From: MMario
Date: 30 Sep 00 - 12:02 AM

and who can forget "Shopping Mall"?

I wanna be in a shoppng Mall
Go on a spree in a shopping Mall
Cashiers go "whee" in the shopping mall
When they see me in the shopping mall!

Subject: RE: East Side Story - the songs
From: Mbo
Date: 30 Sep 00 - 12:02 AM

Oh man LH, you don't know how funny this is to me! We have a town near here called Beulahville, which we INSIST on pronoucing "Bay-yoolah-ville". It's the ATV capital of Eastern North Carolina. You can't drive 100 feet in that place without seeing some chunky good ol' boys (kids) crashing across the corn & cotton & soybean field stubble. It's also the home of many chicken farms, so...

BAY--YOO--LAH-Lah-lah-lah! I'll never stop seeeengeeeng!

Subject: RE: East Side Story - the songs
From: Mbo
Date: 30 Sep 00 - 12:08 AM

Or Spaw's favorite:

We're gonna fock 'em
We're gonna fock 'em tonight...**snap** **snap** **snap** **phbbttttttt**

Subject: RE: East Side Story - the songs
From: thosp
Date: 30 Sep 00 - 12:29 AM

is there a Doctor in the house?

peace (Y) thosp

Subject: RE: East Side Story - the songs
From: WyoWoman
Date: 30 Sep 00 - 12:35 AM

Got a pitchfork
In my pocket
AIIEEEEEEEE...shit!!!!

Subject: RE: East Side Story - the songs
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 30 Sep 00 - 12:36 AM

or my favorite,the theme song of the Irish-American gang of Juvenile delinquents...

When You're a Shit

When you're a Shit you're a guy in demand
From the holes in your shoes to the grime on your hands
When you're a Shit you are never passe'
Though you break into dance you're too tough to be gay

Subject: RE: East Side Story - the songs
From: MMario
Date: 30 Sep 00 - 12:39 AM

when you're a shit,
you're a shit all the way
from the first hour of morning
to the end of the day

Subject: RE: East Side Story - the songs
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 30 Sep 00 - 12:42 AM

When your a shnook your a shnook all the way, from your first circumcision to your bar-mitzvah day....

Subject: RE: East Side Story - the songs
From: WyoWoman
Date: 30 Sep 00 - 01:27 AM

Oh, great, CR. You made me spew MGD all over my keyboard. Some might say this is what I get for drinking MGD, but hey. It was here and so am I.

I feel shitty, oh, so shitty
That the city should fall to its kneeees
A committee ... should be organized to cheer up meeee

See that ugly gril in the mirror there
(which, what, where, whom?)
Who can that repulsive girl be?
Such a dopey face, such a flaccid smile, such a triple chin, such a shitty meeeeeee

Subject: RE: East Side Story - the songs
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 30 Sep 00 - 02:10 AM

There's a couch for us
Somewhere a couch for us
Naugahyde or an overstuffed chair
Wait for us somewhere
Hold my beer and my underwear
Hold my socks and we're halfway there
Somewhere,somehow
We'll find a floor that's less grungy
A color TV and some munchies
Wait for us somewhere
Here's some wine for us!
Some cheese and wine for us!
Some Ritz crackers and a pizza slice
Heat it up till the cheese is nice!
Some couch!
Some beer!
Some where!

Subject: RE: East Side Story - the songs
From: Gary T
Date: 30 Sep 00 - 03:14 AM

Okay, I'll bite--is there actually an "East Side Story" (other than the 60's Mad Magazine parody, which had a Cold War theme), or are you all just making this up on the spot?

Subject: RE: East Side Story - the songs
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Sep 00 - 12:45 PM

Well, of course there is...have we ever been less than truthful to you, Gary?

East Side Story was the original musical, written by Don Martini, an obscure playwright from Schenectady. It chronicled the adventures of some lower middle class airhead type teenagers in a suburb of Schenectady in the late 50's, and their attempts to deal with love, lust, school, social angst, and acne. The heroine was named Beulah, and the hero was named Wilberforce. Beulah and Wilberforce fall in love despite the fact that their parents belong to different lodges...one family is in the Lions Club and the other is in the Loyal Order of Moose. This, of course, leads to tragic and ultimately fatal circumstances, but I don't want to spoil it by telling you too much.

For some unfathomable reason this brilliant musical went nowhere on Broadway or anywhere else...BUT...it did inspire a lacklustre imitation shortly afterward, which we all know as West Side Story. Such is life.

Subject: RE: East Side Story - the songs
From: hesperis
Date: 30 Sep 00 - 08:34 PM

Tonight, tonight, your pants are really tight...

Subject: RE: East Side Story - the songs
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Sep 00 - 08:52 PM

Ha! Ha! I figured you wouldn't be able to resist posting to this thread, Hespy.

I am truly gratified that the Mudcat crew are helping me in unearthing the superb songs from East Side Story. We may yet get it on Broadway where it belongs...and vindicate Don Martini at last. I personally know his surviving sons, Fester and Karbunkle Martini, and they are very happy about the whole thing.

....DAWWWWK!

Subject: RE: East Side Story - the songs
From: Mbo
Date: 30 Sep 00 - 09:01 PM

Gee, Officer Crappy!

Subject: RE: East Side Story - the songs
From: GUEST,Cookieless Chocolate Pi
Date: 30 Sep 00 - 09:14 PM

But there's also a serious movie titled East Side Story, which is a documentary about the genre of Soviet girl-loves-boy-loves-tractor propaganda musicals in the 40's and 50's.

Chocolate Pi

Subject: RE: East Side Story - the songs
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Sep 00 - 09:17 PM

Really??? This could lead to some serious complications.

Subject: RE: East Side Story - the songs
From: MMario
Date: 30 Sep 00 - 10:45 PM

Wasn't that remade in the US as "Red Side Story"?

Subject: RE: East Side Story - the songs
From: richlmo
Date: 30 Sep 00 - 10:53 PM

East Side Story was the first live "theater" I ever saw, at a dinner theater in NC. I tought it was the greatest thing ever!

Subject: RE: East Side Story - the songs
From: richlmo
Date: 30 Sep 00 - 10:57 PM

West side story was even better

Subject: RE: East Side Story - the songs
From: richlmo
Date: 30 Sep 00 - 10:58 PM

I better go to bed!

Subject: RE: East Side Story - the songs
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 01 Oct 00 - 12:25 AM

Didn't Stephen Soundbite write the lyrics? The music by Dullard Beerstein was an important part of it, not to mention Jibboom Throbbins' choreography.

Subject: RE: East Side Story - the songs
From: WyoWoman
Date: 01 Oct 00 - 03:40 PM

People ... people ... we're trying to have a rehearsal here...

Please ... girls ... girls ... we need you lined up for the girl number in Act Two... all right. From the top, one and two ...:

A boy like that
He aint' your brudder
A boy like that
Go find anudder
Stick to your own kind
One of your own kind ...

Subject: RE: East Side Story - the songs
From: MMario
Date: 20 Feb 01 - 01:41 PM

refreshing, ain't it?