Thanks, Steven! I'm glad you appreciated hearing the whole song! I think the section labelled "Trio-Patter" just isn't performed as often (it's surprisingly marked "optional" in the sheet music!).
I've always loved this song, as much for Hart's lyrics as for Rodgers' music. I've tried my hand at songwriting, and it's hard-really hard-to come up with a clever rhyme, especially a rhyme with one word rhyming with two words or one word rhyming with 1½ words (as Hart does in "Mountain Greenery"), and still fit it perfectly into the context and meaning of the lyric. Hart did it over and over again, song after song. There are piano virtuosi; there are violin virtuosi; Hart was a virtuoso of words. I didn't include this song in my Great American Songbook course, but I may be putting together another course in the next year or two strictly on clever and innovative lyrics. There's certainly a place for it there. You're building a great legacy for yourself. But as I said in a comment on "If You Don't Want My Peaches," a page turner might come in handy.
That sounds like a great course! Yes, Hart had a true gift for lyrics. "Beans could get no keener re- ception in a beanery" is so audaciously clever. "Manhattan" tends to be the Rodgers & Hart hit people remember from Garrick Gaieties, but I think "Mountain Greenery" deserves notice too!
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So effortless. (appearing) You make it seems so easy. (endless hours of practice) The music and voice seems to flow from your fingers and heart.
Thank you! If only one could be so lucky as to naturally overflow with Rodgers and Hart!
Great rendition of a classic -- thanks! The first part of the song is very familiar. I really appreciate that you played the entire song.
Thanks, Steven! I'm glad you appreciated hearing the whole song! I think the section labelled "Trio-Patter" just isn't performed as often (it's surprisingly marked "optional" in the sheet music!).
I've always loved this song, as much for Hart's lyrics as for Rodgers' music. I've tried my hand at songwriting, and it's hard-really hard-to come up with a clever rhyme, especially a rhyme with one word rhyming with two words or one word rhyming with 1½ words (as Hart does in "Mountain Greenery"), and still fit it perfectly into the context and meaning of the lyric. Hart did it over and over again, song after song. There are piano virtuosi; there are violin virtuosi; Hart was a virtuoso of words.
I didn't include this song in my Great American Songbook course, but I may be putting together another course in the next year or two strictly on clever and innovative lyrics. There's certainly a place for it there.
You're building a great legacy for yourself. But as I said in a comment on "If You Don't Want My Peaches," a page turner might come in handy.
That sounds like a great course! Yes, Hart had a true gift for lyrics. "Beans could get no keener re- ception in a beanery" is so audaciously clever. "Manhattan" tends to be the Rodgers & Hart hit people remember from Garrick Gaieties, but I think "Mountain Greenery" deserves notice too!