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From:  "Elizabeth Finkler" <mightymezzo@h...>
Date:  Thu Jun 8, 2000  8:15 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist-temporary] Re: Seeking creepy toy-related songs!


>From: Teressa000@a...
>A question for the song scholars out there. I am thinking about doing a
>Halloween recital, with one grouping regarding dolls or other toys that
>come to life (mostly so I can sing Olympia's Les Oiseaux dans la charmille,
>haha).

Satie's song "Le Statue de Bronze" is about a large bronze frog that was
used in a garden game of the early 1900s.

If you can find it, there's a cute song called "The Wedding of the Painted
Doll" which was featured in the very first M-G-M musical, "Broadway Melody"
(1929). You can hear a little scrap of it in that wild montage sequence in
"Singing in the Rain". One of the song's writers is Arthur Freed, can't
think of the other.

Helen Reddy's song "Angie Baby" certainly is creepy!


Elizabeth Finkler
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