[78-L] Quoting Ginger Rogers and ignoring Glenn Miller

[Michael Biel]

With all the discussion about pick yourself up, dust yourself off, 
nobody followed up with a note about what was said at at least 5 of the 
Inaugural Balls last night.   He introduced the new First Lady for a 
dance saying "She does everything I do except she does it in high heels 
and backwards."  That is supposedly what Ginger Rogers described what 
she did during her partnership with Fred Astaire -- where she felt she 
was considered as the secondary part of the team.  The President did 
mess the line up the first time he used it by forgetting to include the 
backwards part which removed any reference to dancing out of the joke. 

Now, if there is anything you should have been outraged about, it is the 
misattribution of the source of the song they danced to at all the 
balls, "At Last".  As WE all know, it was introduced by Glenn Miller, 
but Beyonce and Etta James were given all the credit by the media.  This 
lists 22 later recordings of the song.  
http://www.secondhandsongs.com/song/5552

Mike (see, i can be non-political) Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com