Need Help With My Sacroiliac

[Dollypop]

Posted: 12/9/03 at 4:07pm

As many of you know, I am still recovering from the car accident I had in July. Right now my sacroiliac is of great concern.

I first became familiar with this part of the body through a song lyric which I'm sure was from a Broadway show. No, it isn't the mention it gets in GYPSY ("You can sacrifice your sacro working in a back row"). It was a lyric that didn't abbreviate the word.

My witty chiropractor jokingly suggests that it was from the ill-fated musical called THE CHIROPRACTOR'S DAUGHTER, in with Bernadette Peters played Helen Schmidlapp, but I can't find any reference to that in my Burns Mantle collection.

Any help?

[MusicMan]

Posted: 12/9/03 at 6:55pm

Dollypop, could you be thinking of SOUTH AMERICA, TAKE IT AWAY (sung by Betty Garrett), which has the lyric:
"...my spine's out of whack/ there's a great, big crack/
in the back of my sacroiliac?"
The song is from the Harold Rome revue, "Call Me Mister."

[Unknown User]

Posted: 12/9/03 at 7:16pm

MusicMan, don't know if that's what Dolly's been trying to recall...but I thank you. I've been tossing that word in my head ever since I read the initial posting. I knew it was used in a song but it wasn't coming to me. A cute song it is too.

Cheers!

[ChrisLovesShows]

Posted: 12/9/03 at 7:43pm

DP, could your witty chiropractor be pulling your leg AND pulling your leg? I don't find any evidence for the existence of a musical called THE CHIROPRACTOR'S DAUGHTER.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/9/03 at 7:44pm

To Dollypop

Don't get your back up over this

[DofB5]

Posted: 12/9/03 at 8:11pm

Let's not discuss backs--that can be a sore subject.

D

[Dollypop]

Posted: 12/10/03 at 6:03pm

Perhaps sacroiliac is mentioned in the lyric to "Them Bones, Them Bones". Still puzzled over this one.

[Menken Fan]

Posted: 12/10/03 at 7:43pm

The only mention of sacroiliac I know of is in the Blondie song "Rapture." Not musical theatre, thus not what you're searching for.

[MusicMan]

Posted: 12/11/03 at 12:15am

While doing a google search, I found out that Sinatra recorded three songs with the word "sacroiliac" in the lyric. However, I can't find what those titles are. Does that ring any bells for you? Sinatra + sacroiliac= ??

[Dollypop]

Posted: 12/11/03 at 9:46am

"Who taught him how to wack his bruisin' sacroiliac?" Naw!!!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 12/11/03 at 4:26pm

"The Hucklebuck," as sung by Frank Sinatra: "Then you hunch your back/Have a little movement in your sacroiliac"

[Dollypop]

Posted: 12/11/03 at 5:32pm

That's it!!!!!!! I remember my father playing "The Hucklebuck" many years ago--when I was playing in the bullrushes with my buddy Moses.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 12/12/03 at 2:15pm

Hooray! Ol' Blue Eyes has done it again!