Klarinet Archive - Posting 000036.txt from 2004/07

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] Lilliebolero
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 23:51:10 -0400

Bill=A0Hausmann wrote:

> "Laroo, Laroo, Lillie Bolero" was a big hit song
> sometime in the late 40's or early 50's, for
> reasons I personally cannot understand.

Yes, that's the song! I had thought that "Laroo, Laroo" was intended
as an expression of..... well, anticipatory lust.

Perhaps, then, an American composer enjoyed the UK melody and simply
wrote his or her own lyrics to it?

It's easy to forget how well Sinatra sang, by the way.

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