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Catalog: Song Information: Page 51 of 83Please keep this site alive by contributing song listings and other information to the catalog. See the bottom of every catalog page for how. "Penny Candy"Song not from a cycle or set
This entry contributed by G&K around 5/9/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: "Allegretto giocoso". A very fun song. called "a primer in the fine art of panhandling". Musical theatre. Text Comments: [spoken] I goes up to this rich woman--and right in front of her, I collapses. She says: "Are you one of the people who work here?" I says: "I don't exactly work here--they let me come and rest myself sometimes." She says: "What's the matter, are you ill? I says: "Well, ill, well--my life--" She says: "What's the matter with your life?" So I tells her. [sung] Ah madam I will spare you my tale of woe, You'd sorrow so, your heart would break. There was my darling mother, who cursed and drank, One day she sank down in that lake. The lake by her window, and she in bed, by liquor maimed. She musta fell out and fell in, She's dead and still unclaimed. For ten years we haven't found the body... Ah, madam, I won't tell you about myself. I'm on the shelf, a ruined life. My children in the gutter and garbage grew. Their mother too my wedded wife, and me with lumbago, and bitten by a special curse. All night and all day I'll be sittin' by and feelin' worse and worse--Why? I gotta secret passion! [spoken] This old wreck can still dream, madam. You'd never guess-- She says: "Liquor too, I suppose--" Me? Never touched it! "Riches?" Naa, I don't crave riches. "Women?" Really, madam, you have mistaken your man! You'll only laugh at me--You'll think it's childish-- "What is it? Go on!") You sure? Oh lead me to that smell of penny candy! Although I ain't got any penny handy. If you will only say that I may smell a spearmint bell a non-pareil a Scotch delight, a taffy bite no, not a bite, but just a smell. Take me away--I don't feel well. Oh, I go crazy only smelling when I cannot buy a thing today. She says: "What a peculiar passion to have!" But me, I'm an artist! I goes right on! [and he does, building up the story why hard candy is so dreamy to him. the woman begins to be touched, and the panhandler "presses to the advantage". The woman finally gives him a twenty dollar bill in sympathy for his sad penny candy story. the panhandler says this:] But me, I'm an artist! I runs after her, and says: "Here lady, take back your money. I'll never forget ya--for to me, madam, to me--you're an all-day sucker." See Marc Blitzstein: Songs (Sharp, Holvik, Blier) (Recordings) This entry contributed by G&K around 5/9/99. The contributor(s) heard the song. "Pickin Em Up and Layin Em Down"Song 2 (not extractable) from set Maya Angelou Songs
This entry contributed by Robert Jordahl around 10/5/99
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Consistant use of blues scales
Text Comments: A modern-day Leporello muses over past "ladies" he has known. This entry contributed by Robert Jordahl around 10/5/99. The contributor(s) composed the song. "Pierrot"Song 2 (extractable) from set Night Songs
This entry contributed by anonymous around 11/11/98
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Moderato. Second half of the song hangs on the high side of the song's vocal range. Hoiby sound (listenable, interesting, expressive, attractive). Text Comments: Start of text: "Pierrot is dying; Tiptoe in, Finger touched to lip, Harlequin, Columbine and Clown. Hush! How still he lies in his bed, White slipped hand and white sunken head." more. This entry contributed by anonymous around 11/11/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Pledge"
This entry contributed by ECS Publishing around 12/29/98
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Changing meters. Russell Platt in the cd's liner notes: "music appropriate to the cocktail hour but as spare as possible, permitting no enjoyment." Text Comments: House on alert. Sun setting on a blaze Of insight kisses both book and budvase Where they hurt. Did the page-turner yawn and slacken, Or an omen flip by unread? Prime cuts that once bled now blacken. Her brimming eyes say More than they see. He is all worried probity About to get its way. Dance steps the world knows curiously well Ease them asunder--Friends "rallying around her," His "move to a hotel." Which one will get the finger-wagging metronome, Which one make a home For the aged cricket Who sang togetherness ahead From a hearth glowing bright? It's dark now. I write Propped up in a bed: "You who have drained dry Your golden goblet are about to learn--As in my turn Have I--How life, unsweetened, fizzing up again Fills the heart. I drink to you apart in that champagne." See Songs by Daron Hagen (Recordings) This entry contributed by G&K around 12/29/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Poem"Song 1 (extractable) from set Boy Mad
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Duration 4:00 An all-encompassing, what-the-hell song of freedom, liberation and "reckless ecstasy". Some big leaps and very fast 'patter song' word-setting at end. Text Comments: Kissed and despised. Good Morning bright steps rising To brown stone buildings Colorful individuals angling Down them toward the train - Sadly heedlessly or in inspired Reckless ecstasy on this glorious Day you will love you will hate both Kiss and despise. The grotesque beauty The radiantly ugly the genius or the just Plain foolish and goofy, good morning All! On this glorious day the boundless White beret is on your lovely heads go ahead Love and be loved hate and be hated kiss and despise be kissed and despised! This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. "Poem ("Lana Turner has collapsed!")"Song 5 (extractable) from set Songs on Poems of Frank O'Hara
This entry contributed by G&K around 11/28/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: to be annotated by composer in '99 Text Comments: Beginning of text: "Lana Turner has collapsed! I was trotting along and suddenly it started raining and snowing and you said it was hailing. . ." [more] End of text: "I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed--oh Lana Turner we love you--get up Recordings: by Christopher Trakas and Steven Blier This entry contributed by G&K around 11/28/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Poet Pal of Mine"Song 2 (extractable) from set Cabaret Songs: Volume 4
This entry contributed by G&K around 4/26/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: marked "Lively". Uses sprechstimme-like effect in middle of song. Large leaps in vocal part. Two F#5s are just touched on, but strong low voice a necessity. Text Comments: Poet pal of mine! Dead nut so what. Your words, Your verse, So striking! Who can ever forget The sonnet that began "Oh Russian wolf!" And ended in Japan. And you did write, After all, that villanelle The world remembers well, with that recurring line: "Those bones in that cave." Your loft, Modern as the inside of an ear! Your pride, Your poverty, Your weekly sestina, And in your radical phase, Your accusatory pantoum: "Time, get out of my hair!" And on your deathbed, Your parting shot, Your deathless rondeau How did it go? I forgot. This entry contributed by G&K around 4/26/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Poor Girl"Song 1 (not extractable) from set Maya Angelou Songs
This entry contributed by Robert Jordahl around 10/5/99
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This entry contributed by Robert Jordahl around 10/5/99. The contributor(s) composed the song. Please contribute to the catalog
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