At approximately the 3:30 mark in the video, the ensemble sings a lyric containing the phrase "call me savage". This is the title of one of the songs from Fade Out -- Fade In, a 1964 show with music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Comden & Green. It was one of Carol Burnett's signature songs in that musical, which today is rarely done. The song also has a bit of notoriety in that Styne used it again (with different lyrics, also by Comden & Green) in Hallelujah, Baby!. In that 1967 show the song was titled "Witches Brew".
Jule Styne, of course, wrote the music for the 1972 musical, Sugar, which was the first Broadway musicalization of the Billy Wilder 1959 film, Some Like It Hot. Coming full circle, when Sugar was revived in a 1991 London production with Tommy Steele, the show's title was once again Some Like It Hot. |
