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| "Because it's June! June, June, June - Jest because it's June, June, June!" | |
| Posted by: BrianJ 02:56 am EDT 08/27/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Don’t you love farce? - AlanScott 03:11 pm EDT 08/26/19 | |
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| We are talking about a guy who heard that lyric when he was 15 and still couldn't comprehend that he was listening to a song called "June Is Bustin' Out All Over" rather than "Julie's Bustin' Out All Over".... maybe he just has a terrible ear? | |
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| re: "Because it's June! June, June, June - Jest because it's June, June, June!" | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 03:29 pm EDT 08/27/19 | |
| In reply to: "Because it's June! June, June, June - Jest because it's June, June, June!" - BrianJ 02:56 am EDT 08/27/19 | |
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| ***We are talking about a guy who heard that lyric when he was 15 and still couldn't comprehend that he was listening to a song called "June Is Bustin' Out All Over" rather than "Julie's Bustin' Out All Over".... maybe he just has a terrible ear?**** Of course, you're joking, but I don't think Sondheim has a terrible ear. I think he realized immediately that the title was "June is Bustin' Out All Over," but maybe once or twice, when the opera singer playing Nettie Fowler sang the line, her pronunciation was such that it struck him that it sounded a little like "Julie's bustin' out all over," so he modified the story of what he heard to make for a funny anecdote. |
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| Mis-heard Lyrics in CAROUSEL | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 09:05 am EDT 08/27/19 | |
| In reply to: "Because it's June! June, June, June - Jest because it's June, June, June!" - BrianJ 02:56 am EDT 08/27/19 | |
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| The first time I heard John Raitt sing "Soliloquy" instead of "And look in his eyes through a lorgnette", I thought the lyrics were "And look in his eyes all forlorn yet". I was probably only about 12 and had no idea what a lorgnette was. | |
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| re: Mis-heard Lyrics in CAROUSEL | |
| Posted by: keikekaze 10:44 pm EDT 08/27/19 | |
| In reply to: Mis-heard Lyrics in CAROUSEL - BroadwayTonyJ 09:05 am EDT 08/27/19 | |
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| An amusing example of a mis-heard lyric (or mondegreen) from my own family. About 1962, my little sister and I were listening to the cast album of Tenderloin on the radio. I would have been about 13, and Lisa could not have been more than 10. Anyway, Ron Hussmann was singing "The Picture of Happiness," a song that describes a seduction, and came to the lyric, "Her head began to swim, Which was no surprise to him, And then . . . And then . . . He gratified his whim!" And my sweet little sister turned to me and said, "He grabbed her by the what???" |
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| More Mis-heard Lyrics | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 09:04 am EDT 08/28/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Mis-heard Lyrics in CAROUSEL - keikekaze 10:44 pm EDT 08/27/19 | |
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| That's pretty funny. After watching the cast of West Side Story perform "Cool" and "Tonight" on the Ed Sullivan Show (in '58 I believe), my mom bought me the OBC LP. I was only 10 and when I heard "The Jet Song" and "Gee, Officer Krupke" for the first time, instead of "If the spit hits the fan" and "Gee, Officer Krupke -- Krup you!", I thought they were singing "If the shit hits the fan" and "Gee, Officer Krupke -- fuck you!". I had recently gotten my mouth washed out with soap (Lifebuoy -- the worst!) for saying "Fuck, yeah!" at the dinner table (a phrase, BTW, my fellow altar boys at St . Barbara Grade School said all the time). I was so paranoid that I was going to get the soap treatment again, I made sure to skip those two tracks whenever my parents were around. |
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| re: More Mis-heard Lyrics | |
| Posted by: keikekaze 05:08 pm EDT 08/28/19 | |
| In reply to: More Mis-heard Lyrics - BroadwayTonyJ 09:04 am EDT 08/28/19 | |
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| I never had my mouth washed out with soap, but "bad" words were so verboten in our house that when I accidentally said "damn," out of sheer surprise at something at age 17, my mom practically had a heart attack! (And that was 1966.) As a result, I was so unfamiliar with most naughty words that at 12 I could only hear "Krup you" as "Krup you," and I didn't even immediately get the implication. Maybe I should have been an altar boy! ; ) |
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| re: More Mis-heard Lyrics | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 08:17 pm EDT 08/28/19 | |
| In reply to: re: More Mis-heard Lyrics - keikekaze 05:08 pm EDT 08/28/19 | |
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| I had no idea what the f-word actually meant. I just thought it must be a cool thing to say. Unfortunately my mom disagreed. BTW we also drank the priests' wine on occasion. |
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