Every now and then you encounter a piece of music so jaw-droppingly awful, you can only sit there open-mouthed and incredulous–rather like the audience for “Springtime for Hitler” in The Producers.
This is the popular music (published 1913) that they had when my grandma was a girl–a parade of dead and dying mothers, mortally ill mothers with ungrateful children, hopeless mothers resigned to endless grief… Grandma had a whole store of them, which she sang to her daughters; and my mother, in her turn, sang them to us. I think the purpose of these ditties was to make people feel bad. In this they succeeded.
Laurel and Hardy once got a lot of laughs out of this song, The Curse of an Aching Heart. Then in 1961 Frank Sinatra came along and revived it, this time with a Las Vegas-style upbeat. It would not be possible to find less appropriate music to accompany these lyrics, as you will hear if you have the courage to play the video.
What were they thinking? I’m sure I don’t know.
I got through the first stanza and couldn’t take any more.
I wish I could remember the Laurel and Hardy movie in which this monstrosity was lampooned. Lotsa belly-laughs!
I listened to just a few lines, then off. I faintly remember it from when I was young and listened to all of Frankie’s music. Yuk.
This appalling song is a lot older than Frank Sinatra.
Here is the Laurel and Hardy bit, apparently from ‘Blotto’.
Oh, thanks, Laura! I’d forgotten the title of the film. That scene is so funny!
This is the most humorous thing I’ve run across today. The lyrics are atrocious, there’s no doubt about it, but I love the way Sinatra did it. Maybe that was the point; satire piled high on an insufferable old song. I loved the Laurel & Hardy bit, too.
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Thanks for that.
I think we need a Constitutional amendment barring anyone in government from issuing any kind of mandate for any reason.