Ten Cents a Dance

[Mamamia Sammy2]

re: Ten Cents a Dance#0

Posted: 8/6/05 at 3:51pm

what is wrong with you?

"I knew this was probably going to happen." - Rathnait62

[Unknown User]

re: Ten Cents a Dance#1

Posted: 8/8/05 at 11:37am

Nickie sings "Ten Cents A Dance"
Chita Rivera

[Unknown User]

re: Ten Cents a Dance#2

Posted: 8/8/05 at 1:39pm

Oh Mary-Ethel, one of my all-time favorites! I remember the first time I heard it sung (Ella) and marveling at the wordplay:
"Sometimes I think I've found my hero
But it's a queer ro
-mance"
Brilliant! and the part about the "Rats from the harbor/are sweethearts my good luck have sent me"!

That Lorenz Hart! I think I love him!

[popcultureboy]

re: Ten Cents a Dance#3

Posted: 8/8/05 at 1:42pm

It's now pretty hard to find, but Megan Mullally sings a killer version of this on her Sweetheart Break In CD.

Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.

[Gothampc]

re: Ten Cents a Dance#4

Posted: 8/8/05 at 1:49pm

Nobody sings it better than Dorothy Loudon.

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

[ConvinceMe2]

re: Ten Cents a Dance#5

Posted: 8/8/05 at 2:25pm

Doris Day in LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME

ConvinceMe2 is dead. Long live BrendanStryker!

[justme2]

re: Ten Cents a Dance#6

Posted: 8/8/05 at 2:32pm

But did any of you see the original film, Ten Cents a Dance? Barbara Stanwyck in 1931....skanky taxi dancer with "dreams of something better" and a skeezy husband keeping her from it....a yummy film...

"My dreams, watching me said, one to the other...this life has let us down."

[Mary_Ethel]

re: Ten Cents a Dance#7

Posted: 8/8/05 at 3:46pm

Quick Trivial Pursuit "on the fly":


In what Broadway Musical did Ruth Etting introduce "Ten Cents a Dance"?

"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."

[Unknown User]

re: Ten Cents a Dance#8

Posted: 8/8/05 at 4:42pm

SIMPLE SIMON

Rodgers & Hart

[Mary_Ethel]

re: Ten Cents a Dance#9

Posted: 8/8/05 at 4:46pm

EXCELLENT, Jose'!


You start work as a "hostess" at the Manhattan Dime-a-Dance Club tonight.

"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."

[Unknown User]

re: Ten Cents a Dance#10

Posted: 8/8/05 at 5:02pm

Actually, Etting did not introduce the song in SIMPLE SIMON. She was not in that production. She did, however, perform and record what was considered to be the definitive version of Rodgers & Hart's song from the 1930 Broadway production.

[Mary_Ethel]

re: Ten Cents a Dance#11

Posted: 8/8/05 at 5:25pm

That's VERY interesting, Jose'.


I've always wondered why the IBDB does not list Etting in their cast list of SIMPLE SIMON...

"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."

[wildcat]

re: Ten Cents a Dance#12

Posted: 8/9/05 at 10:44am

I thought she joined the Broadway cast two months after it opened, because "Love Me or Leave Me" was also added to the score then, even though it was by Kahn and Donaldson.