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Something for the Boys is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and a book by Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields. Produced by Mike Todd , the show opened on Broadway in 1943 and starred Ethel Merman in her fifth Cole Porter musical.
"Comin' Thro' the Rye" is a poem written in 1784 by Robert Burns (1759–1796). The words are put to the melody of the Scottish Minstrel "Common' Frae The Town".This is a variant of the tune to which "Auld Lang Syne" is usually sung—the melodic shape is almost identical, the difference lying in the tempo and rhythm.
We Real Cool" is a poem written in 1959 by poet Gwendolyn Brooks and published in her 1960 book The Bean Eaters, her third collection of poetry. The poem has been featured on broadsides, re-printed in literature textbooks and is widely studied in literature classes. It is cited as "one of the most celebrated examples of jazz poetry". [1] [2] [3]
Girls and boys, come out to play, The moon doth shine as bright as day; Leave your supper, and leave your sleep, And come with your playfellows into the street. Come with a whoop, come with a call, Come with a good will or not at all. Up the ladder and down the wall, A halfpenny roll will serve us all. You find milk, and I'll find flour,
The poem describes a person who is wealthy, well educated, mannerly, and admired by the people in his town. Despite all this, he takes his own life. The song " Richard Cory ", written by Paul Simon and recorded by Simon & Garfunkel for their second studio album, Sounds of Silence , was based on this poem.
"anyone lived in a pretty how town" is a poem written by E. E. Cummings.First published in 1940, the poem details the lives of residents in a nameless town. [1] Like much of Cummings's work, the poem is actually untitled, so critics use the first line to refer to the poem.
The Beach Boys touring band is led by one of its five founding members, Mike Love. People magazine says the 2024 tour also includes longtime member Bruce Johnson and musical director Brian ...
The poem was originally published under the title "Ballad of the Hangman" in Masses and Mainstream magazine under the pseudonym "Jack Denoya", before later being "[r]evised and retitled". [ 2 ] [ 1 ] Its plot concerns a hangman who arrives in a town and executes the citizens one by one.