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12 Jul 03 - 11:58 AM (#981853) Subject: Lyr Req: Tell me why From: lloyd64 What was that old song "Tell me why the stars do shine"? |
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12 Jul 03 - 12:09 PM (#981857) Subject: Lyr Add: Tell me why From: Sorcha Can't believe I didn't find this here......... Tell Me Why Tell me why the stars do shine, Tell me why the ivy twines. Tell me why the sky is blue, and I will tell you why I love you. Because God made the stars to shine Because God made the ivy twine Because God made the sky so blue. Because God made you, That's why I love you.
Words & Music by Mitchell Parish, Michael Edwards and Sigmund Spaeth. © by Mills Music, Inc. |
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12 Jul 03 - 12:51 PM (#981880) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tell me why From: lloyd64 Thanks! Thats it. My band is playing for a 50 year reunion, I feel as this will be a good sing along. Would you suggest any others. Lloyd64 but almost 65 |
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12 Jul 03 - 12:54 PM (#981881) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tell me why From: Sorcha Check out this page of Scout Songs. Lots of stuff in there everybody knows. |
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12 Jul 03 - 01:11 PM (#981892) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tell me why From: masato sakurai There's a third verse (from HERE): I really think that dear God above~Masato |
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12 Jul 03 - 02:51 PM (#981925) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tell me why From: Sorcha Hey, Lloyd, what about Top hits of 1953? |
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12 Jul 03 - 03:00 PM (#981926) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tell me why From: GUEST,fox4zero Sigmund Spaeth and Mitchell Parish are the composers of what I think is a copyrighted song. I know that it was performed in Star Dust, a musical review of Mitchell Parish songs. Larry |
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12 Jul 03 - 05:24 PM (#981975) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tell me why From: open mike hooray sorcha--always have an answer! here is another camp song site.. http://www.prairiehome.org/activities/19970704_campsongs/index.html |
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12 Jul 03 - 05:39 PM (#981977) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tell me why From: open mike and another: camp song book, that is: http://www.btinternet.com/~campfire.songs/ |
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12 Jul 03 - 05:41 PM (#981979) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tell me why From: open mike and here is the index of the songs on the previous page: http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/flying.pigs/list.html i mean in the previous message... |
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31 Jul 03 - 06:32 AM (#994057) Subject: Lyr Add: TELL ME WHY From: Jim Dixon Copied from http://www.digitaltimes.com/karaoke/singers/tellmewhy.html: TELL ME WHY (Mitchell Parish, Michael Edwards and Sigmund Spaeth) VERSE: All through the night, all through the day, I keep on wondering so. Sweetheart, will you answer me true? There's something I want to know: CHORUS: Tell me why the stars do shine; Tell me why the ivy twines; Tell me why the skies are blue; And I will tell you why I love you. Because God made the stars to shine; Because God made the ivy twine; Because God made the skies so blue; That is the reason why I love you. Circa 1945 Words & Music by Mitchell Parish, Michael Edwards and Sigmund Spaeth. © by Mills Music, Inc. |
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23 Sep 03 - 06:38 PM (#1023897) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tell me why From: GUEST,shems There's a version my brother, the physics professor, liked to reference. Tell me why the stars do shine; Tell me why the ivy twines? Tell me why the sky's so blue? And I will tell you just why I love you! Nuclear fusion makes the stars to shine. Heliotropism makes the ivy twine. Rayleigh scattering makes the sky appear blue. Testosterone-induced hormonal response is why I love you! (last line has to be intoned really fast to fit the meter). |
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24 Sep 03 - 06:22 PM (#1024612) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tell me why From: open mike i like the new verse- very educational! |
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24 Sep 03 - 06:46 PM (#1024625) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tell me why From: Joybell My Dear-companion sang "Tell me Why" as a duet with his sister when they were little kids. Now it seems a bit ikky - nostalgia-filled though. He's 65 soon. Thank you for all the additional verses. |
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21 Oct 08 - 10:26 AM (#2471778) Subject: RE: Req/ADD: Tell Me Why (Parish/Edwards/Spaeth) From: GUEST,kbarton After MUCH searching, I turned up a 1902 version by Roy L. Burtch with the title "Why I Love You." You can find it here: http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl//isl/sheetmusic/printable/isl-abi-2443-01 The lyrics of the refrain are standard, although the melody is slightly different from the version I learned as a child. The claim of 1945 by Parish, Edwards and Spaeth is clearly false, although it definitely took on many characteristics of a folk song and they did modify it. The harmonies I learned are clearly pre-1945 and with strong barbershop elements. |
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06 Apr 10 - 06:39 PM (#2880987) Subject: RE: Req/ADD: Tell Me Why (Parish/Edwards/Spaeth) From: GUEST My sister and I first heard this in NJ while working in the inner-city and I used to sing this song to my kids when they were babies. I now sing it to the little girl I keep. Thanks for posting the history behind it. I've always wondered where it came from! |
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10 Aug 13 - 01:38 PM (#3547621) Subject: RE: Lyr Req/Add: Tell Me Why (Parish/Edwards/Spaeth) From: GUEST On a high school Allied Youth trip to Buck Hill Falls Pennsylvania in 1954 the crowd from Canada and USA sang Tell me Why along with another song that blended, but I can't remember the song that went along with Tell me Why. Any thoughts? |
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12 Aug 13 - 09:58 PM (#3548395) Subject: Lyr Add: WHY I LOVE YOU (Mower/Burtch) From: Jim Dixon Congratulations to kbarton for finding this! From the sheet music at Indiana University: Written expressly for and sung with great success by Miss Roberta Keene, with the Great La Fayette Show WHY I LOVE YOU Words by Fred Mower, music by Roy L. Burtch. Indianapolis: Wulschner Music Co., ©1902. 1. There's one who is far away. Cruel fate keeps us apart, Whom I love by night and day. She's the idol of my heart. In my dreams I see her loving face. That dear face comes to me like a spell, Full of beauty and so full of grace, The one I love so well. CHORUS: Tell me why the stars to shine. Tell me why the ivy climbs. Tell me why the sky's so blue, Then I will tell why I love you. 2. Soon I'll be with her again. From her lips I steal a kiss. No more parting; no more pain. Oh, what rapture! Oh, what bliss! Pressing her unto my own true heart, Whisper to her words of cheer, That no more from her I'll have to part, From her I love so dear. |
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24 Feb 16 - 02:41 PM (#3774771) Subject: RE: Lyr Req/Add: Tell Me Why (Parish/Edwards/Spaeth) From: GUEST,Rob Harris Actually much older than that (1913, lyricist Fred Mower - see IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana |
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24 Feb 16 - 02:57 PM (#3774774) Subject: RE: Lyr Req/Add: Tell Me Why (Parish/Edwards/Spaeth) From: GUEST,Rob Harris Curious - the 1913 chorus has a tune that is quite different from the 1902 chorus tune. The 1902 tune is more like the one that I have known since I was a kid (1950s), which is probably the 1945 one. |
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19 Jan 20 - 04:11 PM (#4029103) Subject: RE: Lyr Req/Add: Tell Me Why (Parish/Edwards/Spaeth) From: GUEST,mmarlow Isaac Asimov attributes the science verse to some nameless MIT student. In Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor, page 184, he says he heard it at an MIT Science Fiction Club annual picknik. Last line slightly different from the one posted above. Nuclear fusion makes stars to shine, Tropisms make the ivy twine, Raleigh scattering make skies so blue, Testicular hormones are why I love you. |
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15 Apr 23 - 12:30 AM (#4169958) Subject: RE: Lyr Req/Add: Tell Me Why (Parish/Edwards/Spaeth) From: Joe Offer Another version of the version posted twice above: TELL ME WHY Tell me why the stars do shine; Tell me why the ivy twine. Tell me why the skies are blue, And I will tell you why I love you. Nuclear fusion makes the stars to shine; Tropism makes the ivy twine. Rayleigh scattering makes skies so blue, Glandular hormones is why I love you.” https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2016/09/19/what-are-the-big-questions-that-science-cant-answer-but-religion-can/ I think I prefer: Heliotropism makes the ivy twine. |