[78-L] Oysters Anyone?

[Michael Biel]

Harold Aherne wrote:
> "This was a real nice clambake" is from Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Carousel", and it 
> does relate to a seafood feast, though it concentrates more on the fun had by 
> its participants ("The victuals we et were good, you bet / The company was the 
> same").

It does go a bit further with details of the lobsters and, more to the 
point of this thread, the clams.


Enoch:
Remember when we raked them red hot lobsters
Out of the driftwood fire?
They sizzled and crackled and sputtered a song
Fittin' for an angels' choir.

Girls:
Fittin' for an angels,
Fittin' for an angels,
Fittin' for an angels choir.

Nettie:
We slit 'em down the back and peppered 'em good,
And doused 'em in melted butter.

Carrie:
Then we tore away the claws and cracked 'em with our teeth
Cuz we weren't in the mood to putter.

Girls:
Fittin' for an angels,
Fittin' for an angels,
Fittin' for an angels choir.

A guy:
Then at last come the clams.

Guys:
Steamed under rockweed and poppin' from their shells.

All:
Just how many of 'em galloped down our gullets,
We couldn't say ourselves, oh,


Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 


>  The only 78s I can find of it at the moment are both on Decca, one by 
> Hildegarde and the Song Spinners, the other from the Broadway cast album. 
>  
> I have to confess that I'm not at all a Rodgers & Hammerstein fan. Their work 
> separately is quite brilliant, but their work together seems really pretentious and takes 
> itself way too seriously. Perhaps they were innovative, but I really and genuinely prefer 
> the approach to plots and songs that existed before they screwed everything up. ;-).
> But obviously they have legions of fans, so dismissing them in the middle of a 
> discussion about their clambake song is just shellfish.
>  
> -Harold
>  
>
>
> --- On Sat, 2/28/09, Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com> wrote:
>
> From: Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Oysters Anyone?
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Saturday, February 28, 2009, 8:23 PM
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> The Carroll poem is The Walrus and the Carpenter...if put to music,  it 
> would make a good oyster song.
>
> Cockles and Mussels is a good one.
>
> I don't know the lyrics to the "Clambake" song but I'm
> betting it's not 
> about a seafood feast and the beach!
>
> Taylor
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
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> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 6:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Oysters Anyone?
>
>
>   
>> This Was A Real Nice Clambake.
>> Cockles and Mussells, Alive Alive O.
>>
>> And isn't there a Lewis Carrol poem about oysters in their bed?
>>
>> But would somebody tell us -- what kind of noise DOES annoy oysters???
>>
>> Mike (this stuff isn't kosher, is it) Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>>     
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