Ethan Rayne ,'Potential'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Not useful for my purposes. This is a compilation for people in an Alzheimer's facility, so I need the versions that will be most resonant with the older generation. I've been trying to go with original recordings or those who made it famous (before 1952 or so)
Though it does use the original lyrics.
Don't think so. It's got birds and bees (which is the replacement lyric). They also take a smattering of lines from various verses.
I have an Ella Fitzgerald version of Let's do it from 1956 that uses birds and bees. Would that do?
ets: I also have an Ella version of Puttin' on the Ritz
"Puttin' on the Ritz" -- Maybe the Clark Gable version from Idiot's Delight? I don't have a copy, but it comes with its own video....
I found alternates for both of them. I went with a later Astaire re-recording for Ritz. I may actually have an Ella for Let's Do It. I don't recall with certainty. I'm fairly sure the Gable uses the original lyric, and I'm not putting a song that refers to "high browns" on a mix that I'm sending out into the wilds of older people with Alzheimer's.
Yet none of them are as nerdy as Man or Astro-man? covering the MST3K theme.
That song is pretty. Isn't the official name "Love Song from MST3K" or something like that?
Yep.
Ah, okay, Debet. I'd forgotten that lyric.
Yea, I was almost done with transcribing the lyrics, with a few blanks for "what did he say?" And then we got to the second time through the lyrics, with the different rhythm, and I said, "Tell me he didn't just say that."