[78-L] Lazy lyrics: Cheek to cheek

[Taylor Bowie]

Right....I thought the reference in the lyric was to the speed of the 
evaporation,  not that one event is happy and the other sad.

Taylor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron L" <lherault at bu.edu>
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Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Lazy lyrics: Cheek to cheek


> The cares evaporate quickly.  The lucky steak does the same.
>
> Ron
>
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> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Davies
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 12:54 PM
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: [78-L] Lazy lyrics: Cheek to cheek
>
>        When Bing Crosby created a retrospective album of his career for
> Decca, with spoken intro, etc., he rerecorded his old Victor and Columbia
> hits with a little organ trio.  This was his opportunity to use the term
> "people" instead of "darkies" on "Mississippi mud".
>        But Crosby's crowning achievement as a singer, for me, has to be
> when he recorded "Cheek to cheek" and corrected a long-standing
> irritation.  Irving Berlin produced superior tunes in the last century and
> was famous for his triple rhymes, but in "Cheek to cheek" he compares a
> positive with a negative, which is jarring.
>        "Heaven, I'm in Heaven, and the cares that hung around me thru the
> week,
>        Seem to disappear like a gambler's lucky streak,
>        When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek."
>
>        Why would worries evaporating be like good luck running out?
>
>        Crosby, who famously went in for racehorses, had the wit to fix
> the lyric on this recording, which I think is the "Bing sings, Bregman
> swings" album (Verve, 1956).
>
>                listen online:
> http://www.last.fm/music/Bing+Crosby/_/Cheek+to+Cheek
>
>        And, I too get irritated by illogical puzzle songs like "The
> thing" and the one about the Christmas toy that no one ever knew what it
> was, etc.
>
> - Stephen D
> Calgary
>
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