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robert armstrong  
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  More options Jun 29, 11:17 am
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From: ElBo...@webtv.net (robert armstrong)
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:17:20 -0500
Local: Sun, Jun 29 2008 11:17 am
Subject: Songs that quote other songs
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chromolume wrote:
> On Mar 1, 10:44 pm, Robert Bouton <mprov...@aol.com> wrote:

> > Ira Gershwin quotes a lot:

> he even quotes himself -- he re-used a famous lyric from "I Got
> Rhythm" ("who could ask for anything more?") in two other songs - most
> famously in the bridge to "Nice Work If You Can Get It," but also in
> the less well-known "I'm About To Be A Mother" from Of Thee I Sing,
> which ends with the self-quote.

> And many years later, Sondheim would quote this same lyric (along with
> a few other songs) in his fun pastiche "More" (in the film of Dick
> Tracy).  

Just remembered one: "I've been there once or twice" from They Say It's
Wonderful (Annie GYG), used a few years later in You're Just In Love
(Call Me Madam).

At least Irving Berlin stole from the best.

Bob A

"Aside from that, Mrs. Kennedy, how did you enjoy the motorcade?"


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Jon Alan Conrad  
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  More options Jul 2, 4:44 pm
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From: Jon Alan Conrad <con...@udel.edu>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 13:44:38 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Wed, Jul 2 2008 4:44 pm
Subject: Re: Songs that quote other songs
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On Jun 29, 11:17 am, ElBo...@webtv.net (robert armstrong) wrote:

> > > Ira Gershwin quotes a lot:
> > he even quotes himself -

Another instance is the marriage quatrain "It's never too late to
Mendelssohn / Two hearts are at journey's end-elson; / Whatever future
they must share it, / We trust they Lohen-grin and bear it," which he
must have liked so much after he used it in OH, KAY! that he used it
all over again in LADY IN THE DARK. Even after the song was cut from
the latter show, he (or Weill) smuggled the lines into a finaletto, in
spoken form.

JAC


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