Not from a musical specifically, but this was a trivia moment in my class today - in "They Can't Take That Away From Me" Ira Gershwin writes:
"The song is ended,
But, as the songwriter wrote,
The melody lingers on."
The question - who was "the songwriter"? and the answer is Irving Berlin, who did indeed write a song called "The Song Is Ended (But The Melody Lingers On)." I think it's also interesting that Gershwin refers to him as THE songwriter as opposed to just "a songwriter."
And as long as we're on Ira Gershwin, can anyone name the OTHER TWO Gershwin songs (besides "I Got Rhythm") that feature the lyric "Who could ask for anything more"? (And bonus points if you can name yet another song, written much later by another renowned theatre composer, for a film, that also uses the lyric.) |
