Make Someone Happy...

[Max Bialystock]

Posted: 10/8/03 at 12:24pm

I have a bout of brain freeze and cannot find what show by Jule Styne and Comden and Green this song came from....

Make someone happy...
Make just one someone happy....

Please make Max happy.....Yom Kippur exhausted me!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/8/03 at 12:26pm

Do Re Me???

[robbiej]

Posted: 10/8/03 at 12:27pm

You are correct, VA.

It is Do Re Mi!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/8/03 at 12:28pm

Yeah! Even Jessica is smiling!

[TheBalladeer]

Posted: 10/8/03 at 12:29pm

Yes, it's Do Re Mi.

[Max Bialystock]

Posted: 10/8/03 at 12:29pm

Bless you both...this is the smartest board ever. Thanks!

Now see if it doesn't stick in your head all day!

[robbiej]

Posted: 10/8/03 at 12:31pm

Oh...it's on an endless loop right now, you evil bastard!!!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/8/03 at 12:31pm

I hate the freakin song! It reminds me of that dopey movie...I forget what it is....Jimmy Durante sang it....

[TheBalladeer]

Posted: 10/8/03 at 12:33pm

I love ALL Jule Styne songs....they're so.....CATCHY.

[WOSQ]

Posted: 10/8/03 at 1:21pm

Betty and Adolph would close their cabaret evenings with Make Someone Happy. It was a simple and utterly beguiling way to end lovely evenings.

Was the script for Do Re Mi published by Random House? I have seen a listing for it in an old advertisement, but have never actually seen a copy, nor did any scans of used book sites turn up anything. Any help?

Kanin based the libretto on a short novel that he wrote in 1955.

[bluemangirl]

Posted: 10/8/03 at 2:05pm

Isn't it the in the end of "Sleepless in Seattle" too?

[Dollypop]

Posted: 10/8/03 at 7:56pm

There's a really fine rendition of this in the Encores! recording of DO RE MI...the one starring Nathan Lane. "Make Someone Happy" was brilliantly sung in that production by Brian Stokes Mitchell.

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 10/8/03 at 10:20pm

The songwriters made some nice extra catch some years ago by selling it to Pillsbury (or was it Duncan Hines?) for the TV ads that featured "Bake Someone Happy!"

[Max Bialystock]

Posted: 10/9/03 at 7:08am

How about Mrs. Lovett singing "Bake Someone Happy" ?

[NativeNewYorker]

Posted: 10/9/03 at 9:06am

Yeah, it's on the Sleepless in Seattle soundtrack...that whole album is great.

[sheekala]

Posted: 10/9/03 at 5:18pm

And if you can find the out of print OCR with Phil Silvers you are in for a treat.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 10/10/03 at 6:05pm

Last year at the Encores Broadway Bash, they ended the show with "Make Someone Happy" as a tribute to Adolph Green.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/10/03 at 7:00pm

Re Jule Styne

1. You could always tell A Styne show by the overture - Gypsy probably being the best Broadway overture ever composed ( Mack & Mabel being a close 2 nd)

2. He always stole from himself & was shamelesss about it. Melodies from 1 show turned up in another

[Dollypop]

Posted: 10/10/03 at 7:08pm

...except Jerry Herman wrote MACK AND MABEL.

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 10/10/03 at 7:17pm

DOLLY, i read ROXY's post as meaning in "Broadway Overtures" he ranked Gypsy first and Mack & Mabel second. You obviously read it as in "Styne Overtures" he mistakenly listed Mack & Mabel.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 10/10/03 at 7:19pm

...poor sentence structure.

[zoom]

Posted: 10/10/03 at 7:23pm

Do Re Mi is a show I hope noone tries to make a major revival of. "Make Somone Happy" is about the only real great song from that show.

But I gues if Melanie wants to star in a revival............

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/10/03 at 7:23pm

1. I mention Mack & Mabel as 2 nd best overture written

2. Re gramatical structure, give me a break. I did not realize I was back in school trying to impress a teacher.