[78-L] 'Gay'.

[David Lennick]

Don't inquire of Georgie Raft/Why his cow has never calfed/Georgie's bull is 
beautiful but he's gay. Forgot about that lyric. Danny Kaye on Columbia (he 
sang it in the show) and Mary Jane Walsh on LMS. That's a much earlier 
reference on record than the one I was trying to come up with, which is Billy 
Gray in "My Fairfax Lady" (Jubilee, late 50s) where a response lyric has Billy 
ask "He's gay?"

Hey, here are the COMPLETE lyrics including some never recorded by either 
artist and some never used in the show.
http://www.culturagay.it/cg/schedaCanzone.php?id=1

dl

Taylor Bowie wrote:
> Hey,  David...I didn't know that you knew Larky and Sparky,  too.  Great 
> guys.  Much better than those other two we sometimes  run into,  Snarky and 
> Jerky!
> 
> Nobody mentioned that song from Leave Us Face it called "Farming" where I 
> recall some mention of Georgie Raft's bull as being gay or something like 
> that...am I remembering right?
> 
> I have a Liberty Music Shop album which has the song on it...don't know who 
> sang it in the show.
> 
> Taylor
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Weiner" <djwein at earthlink.net>
> To: "'78-L Mail List'" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 7:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] 'Gay'.
> 
> 
>> I have two things against using 'gay' as a word for homosexual.
>>
>> (1) It's inaccurate. I've met some pretty miserable homosexual people
>> of both sexes.
>>
>> --------
>> And I've met some pretty miserable straight people - I think "miserable" 
>> is
>> the default setting for most adults.  Depends on who you are surrounded
>> with.  The majority of my gay friends are larky & sparky.
>>
>> And back to records, don't forget "Keep It Gay" from Rodgers & 
>> Hammerstein's
>> ME AND JULIET, on 78 by Perry Como.  And as late as 1961, there was the
>> Dietz-Schwartz Broadway musical THE GAY LIFE, which has been retitled THE
>> HIGH LIFE for any professional performances these days.
>>
>> Dave W.