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

[Taylor Bowie]

Is that supposed to be funny?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "martha" <MLK402 at verizon.net>
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Obama quotes Dorothy Fields (not OT, the song was on 78)


> Fred Astaire for President,  Ginger Rogers as VP,  Edward Everett Horton 
> as
> Secretary of State!  At least Fred and Ginger could do justice to the 
> words
> paraphrased by BO's speech writers.
>
> Sounds like the Dream Team, compared to what we've had for the past (many 
> too many)
> years.   Too bad they're all dead.
>
> I suppose we aren't allowed to watch any Al Jolson movies for the time 
> being.
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> To: "78L" <78-L at 78online.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 1:21 PM
> Subject: [78-L] Obama quotes Dorothy Fields (not OT, the song was on 78)
>
>
>> "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
>
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