[78-L] Obama quotes Dorothy Fields (not OT, the song was on 78)

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Tue Jan 20 12:03:46 PST 2009


Royal Pemberton wrote:
> Do you think he'll invoke 'Don't blame me' 4 or 8 years from now?
> 
On The Sunny Side of the Street
Hey, Young Fella
Stars In My Eyes
It Doesn't Cost You Anything to Dream
Baby Dream Your Dream
I Dream Too Much

dl

> On 1/20/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>> "Starting Today, We Must Pick Ourselves Up, Dust Ourselves Off, and Begin
>> Again
>> the Work of Remaking America"
>>
>> I mentioned to a theatre friend that a Dorothy Fields lyric had been
>> paraphrased and he asked which one. When I told him, he replied that he'd
>> expected "Hey, Big Spender" or "There's Gotta Be Something Better than
>> This".
>> Both good choices.



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