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

[Mike Harkin]

--- On Tue, 1/20/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: [78-L] Obama quotes Dorothy Fields (not OT, the song was on 78)
> To: "78L" <78-L at 78online.com>
> Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 10:21 AM
> "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.
> 
> (No idea who that poet Elizabeth Whatsername is, but Robert
> Frost she ain't.)
> 
> dl

Where's Otto Schmink when you need 'im????

Mike in Plovdiv
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