"Sometimes when the rappings fall, there's nothing underneath at all."
But there's no rapping in the song, unless that's what you want to call the few spoken-in-rhythm lines by the boys, which would be anachronistic. Wrappings, however...those are there. ;-)
As others have said, "Lucy" was the 2nd song, after "Uptown," not the 3rd. And there are no more than 3 total (unless you count the fact that "Losing My Mind" was originally to be Phyllis' song, not Sally's). "Underneath" was written for the first London production, and was one of 2 songs replaced in the Loveland sequence, with Ben's "Live Laugh Love" becoming "Make The Most Of Your Music" (along with a reinvented "Loveland" song).
The only revival (if we want to call a regional production by that term) that has used "Underneath" instead of "Lucy" that I know of was at Papermill. But of course I can't speak for every production.
All 3 of Phyllis' songs are linked by a common chord progression (the downward chromatic sequence at the top of each song's refrain). |
