The Verse

[Belter]

Posted: 12/15/03 at 7:12am

The whole verse, little known, can you name these three songs?


Why do I just do as you say?
Why do I just give you your way?
Why do I sigh?
Why don't I try to forget?
It must be that something lovers call "fate",
kept on saying I had to wait
I had them all
Just couldn't fall till we met!


And


There's a saying old, says that love is blind
Still, we're often told "seek and ye shall find"
So I'm going to seek a certain lad I've had in mind.
Looking everywhere, haven't found him yet
He's the big affair, I cannot forget
Only man I'll ever think of with regret.
I'd like to add his initial to my monogram
Tell me, where is the shepherd for this lost lamb?


And

Everybody has a mother
Who with sympathy can smother
But she'd very often save my darkest days
As the gloom and doom would thicken
She would serve me soup with chicken
And she'd lean across the table and she'd say:




One medium, one easy, one hard. Good luck!!

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 12/15/03 at 8:08am

1) IT HAD TO BE YOU

2) SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME

3) ?!

[DefyingGravity2]

Posted: 12/15/03 at 8:19pm

3) Minnie's Boys? the show? don't know the song?

[Belter]

Posted: 12/15/03 at 9:59pm

The composer left Broadway after this show and went Hollywood.

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 12/15/03 at 10:37pm

Harry Warren?

[Unknown User]

Posted: 12/15/03 at 10:39pm

Whoever it was, good thing he/she left Broadway!

Bulldog.

[Belter]

Posted: 12/16/03 at 10:48pm

The show ran at the Lunt-Fontane for approx. 6 months in the late 60s, was one of Tommy Tune's first shows, and the composer did do well in Hollywood, winning an Oscar for his score of a movie musical which is a Tony-Winning best musical on Broadway right now!


I think this may tip the balance to the show ... as for the song ... I believe Brenda Vaccaro was one of the singers in the number.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 12/17/03 at 12:42am

According to your latest clue I'd say you're referring to Elmer Bernstein who composed the music for the score of HOW NOW, DOW JONES. The words are by the lyricist Carolyn Leigh. Opening 12/7/1967, and in the cast were Tommy Tune and Brenda Vaccaro.

This has been described as not well written, you have provided one example.

Winning an Oscar and/or a Tony is not synomous with quality.

P.S. You titled this "The Verse" but you refer to the composer. The verse is written by the lyricist.

Bulldog.

[Belter]

Posted: 12/17/03 at 1:36am

It is the verse of the song, so the title of my post is not inappropriate.

The hint was not blatant, and it was called "Hint #1" -- implying, as I intended, that there would be more hints, becoming more and more specific.

Just because an answer to a question is not available on google doesn't make it a bad puzzle. And I admitted it was hard.

I happen to know the score of this show and I like it. I haven't had to read other critics comments and make them my own.

You complained about my answers on your thread, now you're complaining about the clues on my own thread. Chill.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 12/17/03 at 2:08am

OK. I'll guess and say this is "Shakespeare Lied."

I didn't say the title was inappropriate, instead your references to the "composer" are. The composer doesn't write the verse. It would have been more appropriate to have posted music notes to the verse. Now that would have been hard and true to your composer and verse references.

How much of Elmer Bernstein music is used in the stage version of TMM? The song, "TMM" was written by Jimmy Van Heusen (composer) and Sammy Cahn (lyricist).

Bulldog

[Belter]

Posted: 12/17/03 at 2:31am

And I found a Quicktime version of it on Courtenay Day's site. (not sure if that's how she spells her name, google "Shakespeare Lied") so you can listen to the song if you've got the computer capability. (though, IMO, she doesn't do it well.)

Not sure how much of TMM is Bernstein. That movie doesn't have a ton of original music, anyway, IMO. I suppose Julie singing the title song was what put it over the top.

I'm a singer, thus for me words and music are mentally linked. I cannot read words of a song and not hear the music. I think of "Shakespeare Lied" as belonging to both Bernstein and Leigh, despite the fact that Carolyn wrote the words. Do we know who went first in that partnership? (words or music?)