Re: The Man I Love
I agree that the verse of Friml’s “Indian Love Call” is lovely. But I think the most commercially successful recording of the song - Slim Whitman’s - works well enough without the verse. (I realise Whitman’s style is very different from what Friml imagined.) Also, when Friml played a piano transcription of the song on TV in the 1950s, he omitted the music of the verse. In this case, the song was played in a medley with the song “Rose Marie” - and in the context of a medley the verse is more likely to be omitted. Previous Message Yes, they do as does Gershwin's own (which Grainger's version is obviously based upon). It occurs to me that there are some songs where the words of the chorus are not fully comprehensible if the introductory verse is omitted, for example Cole Porter's comedy song "The physician" or Kern's "Bill" from Showboat. Another song which, in my opinion should never have its verse omitted is Friml's "Indian Love Call" from Rose Marie; "When the lone lagoon stirs in the Spring, welcoming home some swany-white wing"....absolutely lovely. Friml obviously wasn't a pupil of Dvorak for nothing !
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The Man I Love - Alex Segal February 15, 2023, 9:51 am
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- Re: The Man I Love - Jeffrey Lague March 28, 2023, 1:32 pm
- Re: The Man I Love - Nick Barnard March 28, 2023, 3:45 pm
- Re: The Man I Love - Alex Segal March 28, 2023, 6:59 pm
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- Re: The Man I Love - Jeffrey Lague March 29, 2023, 1:00 pm
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