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"(Just Like) Romeo and Juliet" is a song written by Bob Hamilton and Freddie Gorman, first made famous by the 1964 hit recording by the Reflections.The song is the first person narrative of a young man who plans to find a job so that he can buy his girlfriend presents and a car to take her out on dates.
The Reflections are an American blue-eyed soul/doo-wop group from Detroit, Michigan, United States. [1] They had one hit single in 1964 called " (Just Like) Romeo and Juliet ", written by Bob Hamilton and Freddie Gorman . [ 2 ]
In the famous speech of Act II, Scene II [1] of the play, the line is said by Juliet in reference to Romeo's house: Montague. The line implies that his name (and thus his family's feud with Juliet's family) means nothing and they should be together. Juliet: O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
It is an updated version of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Many of the characters in Draper's novel closely parallel those in Shakespeare's play. The plot updates the family feud between the Capulets and Montagues to reflect modern racial tensions between African-Americans and Hispanics in the United States.
Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, in which the composer is always pleasing, though seldom impressive, might be described as the powerful drama of Romeo and Juliet reduced to the proportions of an eclogue for Juliet and Romeo. One remembers the work as a series of very pretty duets, varied by a sparkling waltz air for Juliet, in which Madame Patti ...
[293] He remarks on another kind of editing—what would soon become known as "Bowdlerisation"—in the treatment of a passage in Romeo and Juliet in which the frank speech of Juliet alarmed the prudes of his day. He quotes the passage, commenting that "we have no doubt that it has been expunged from the Family Shakespear."
(Just Like) Romeo and Juliet", a 1964 hit single by blue-eyed soul/doo-wop group The Reflections "Romeo & Juliet", a 1967 cover of the Reflections song, by Michael and the Messengers Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet , the main theme written by Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini from the 1968 film Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet (Italian: Romeo e Giulietta) is a 1968 period romantic tragedy film, based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare. Directed and co-written by Franco Zeffirelli , the film stars Leonard Whiting as Romeo and Olivia Hussey as Juliet .