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he’ll carry the key...oh, how I need,
someone to watch over me.”
As for males singing to females
or y ro y th r ar
nty
of those too.
Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach,
and Frank Mandel, from “One Alone”:
“One alone to be my own, I alone to
know her caresses; she would be
eternally the one my worshiping soul
possesses. At her call, I’d give my
all...it would be the perfect world
for me if she were mine alone.”
Granted, this is more like operetta,
t i r i
into that r a m
fairly quickly, once my devotion
to romantic songs was set.
Ira Gershwin.
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Oscar Hammerstein
II. Image courtesy of
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Frank Loesser, from “More I Cannot
i h o
m o y an yri
or
I cannot wish you than to wish you
n yo r o
tan in th r a in
at you, full of the bloom of youth...
with the sheep’s eye and the licorice
tooth...and the strong arms to carry
you away.”
Many other lyrics have strong
romantic elements but are also comic
or r at to
a rtain ni
aspect of musical plots. Due to time
constraints, I won’t cover them here.
But rest assured, if they end happily,
they’re included in my loving lyrical
inventory of poetry.
YouTube video credits:
G. Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue,
FORTISSIMO FEST 2010
youtu.be/qLTManObB40
Robert Palmer - People Will Say
r in o
Ro
r
amm r t in
o r
youtu.be/qLTManObB40
Ella Fitzgerald - It’s DeLovely Cole Porter Songs De Lovely
youtu.be/txBnEh-SpGg
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