Thank you for the good times
Here’s the Dame having a laugh with her mates.
Don’t know where, don’t know when. Anyone know?
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The Lady Is A Tramp
Click below to enjoy the song over the decades:-
1972
The Lady Is A Tramp Dutch Gala Show
1990s
From A Royal Gala – followed by Freddie Mercury’s stunning WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER
2006
Faenol Festival, just the other day
Thanks to Scot
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The Lady Is A Tramp
Music written by Richard Rodgers, words by Lorenz Hart.
Rodgers & Hart
Released 1965 on the album “Shirley Stops The Shows”. In the same year a live recording was released on “Shirley Bassey At The Pigalle”.
As Shirley Bassey has performed this song on many live concerts until today, it is also on some live recordings: “Live at Talk of the Town” from 1970, the 1997 “The Birthday Concert”, and on some videos.
Composer Richard Rodgers (born 1902 NY) began with the age of 16 to work together with lyricist Lorenz Hart (born 1895 NY). They worked together until 1943 and produced many successful musicals and also Hollywood films, but they’re usually remembered for their songs, not their shows. Many of Rodgers & Hart’s stage hits were made into movie musicals as well. Lorenz Hart had alcohol problems in 1942, and died 1943. Richard Rodgers found an even more capable replacement in an old friend, Oscar Hammerstein II. They wrote famous musicals like “Oklahoma!” (1943), “South Pacific” (1949), “The Sound of Music”, “Carousel” (1945), “The King and I” (1951). From these musicals Shirley Bassey has performed for example “You’ll Never Walk Alone”, “Climb Ev’ry Mountain” and “Something Wonderful”.
Oscar Hammerstein II
After Oscar Hammerstein II died in 1960, Rodgers worked alone as composer and lyricist, but also teamed with Alan Jay Lerner, Burton Lane and Stephen Sondheim. For all his compositions he has been honoured with an entry into the Entertainment Hall of Fame. He died 1979.
This song is from the Rodgers/Hart musical “Babes in Arms”. This musical spawned two more hit songs “Where Or When” and “My Funny Valentine”, which have also been recorded by Shirley Bassey. The Broadway premiere of the musical was on April 14, 1937, and it ran for eight months with 289 performances. It is about the children of vaudevillians who put on a show, and the story has been loosely adapted into a movie with the same title 1939.
1940 another musical with Rodgers & Hart songs started, which also included this song and “My Funny Valentine” again: “Pal Joey”. A sophisticated, downbeat tale about a gigolo. It may have been a bit too dark for audiences in 1940, when it had a moderate run on Broadway with 374 performances. In 1951 a new studio recording has been released, and the success of this album led to a Broadway revival of “Pal Joey” in 1952. A movie starring Kim Novak and Frank Sinatra has been made out of the musical 1957
Sir Noël Coward, mentioned in the lyrics, was the first Brit inducted into the American Songwriters’ Hall of Fame. He was not only a songwriter, but also a playwright, director and actor as well as a filmmaker and novelist. Shirley Bassey sang his song “If Love Were All” (from “Bitter Sweet”).
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Lyrics
I’ve wined and dined on mulligan stew
And never wished for turkey
I’ve hitched and hiked. and drifted too
From Maine to Albuquerque
Alas I missed the beaux arts ball
And what is twice as sad
I was never at a party
Where they honoured Noel Coward
His social circles move to fast for me
My hobohemia is the place to be
I get too hungry for dinner at eight
I love the theatre but never come late
I never bother with people I hate
That’s why this lady is a tramp
I don’t like crap games with barons and earls
Won’t go to Harlem in ermine and pearls
Won’t dish the dirt with the rest of those girls
That’s why this lady is a tramp
I like the free fresh wind in my hair
Life without care
I’m broke… that’s oke
Hate California, it’s cold and it’s damp
That’s why this lady is a tramp
I like the free fresh wind in my hair
Life without care
I’m broke… that’s oke
Hate California, it’s cold and it’s damp
That’s why this lady is a tramp
And I love it
Yes, I’m a tramp, and I love it
And I wish that you will come in my way yeah
I wish that you will come in my way yeah
I wish that you will come in my way
Yes, I’m a lady
But a tramp
Transcribed by Roman
Thanks to Ed for the above information
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Albuquerque, New Mexico. It’s cold and it’s damp.
Well, actually, North Wales was!
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Babes In Arms – The Musical
Click here for link to Lorenz Hart web site
And Wikipedia has everything you’d ever want to know
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Mulligan Stew
A type of thick stew containing whatever ingredients happen to be on hand when making it. Ingredients generally include meat, potatoes and a mixture of any type of vegetable that is available at the time. The cuisine of poverty.
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Crap games?
