hidden music

[Gillies, Lindsay]

John Burgess writes:
Just wanted to say that I, too, "hear" the music behind those
off-the-wall lyrics.  I guess that TRP is pushing some very deep buttons
in the brains of many of his readers... at least those old enough to have
a musical referent!
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It would be interesting to test who could "hear" the vaudville music and 
match against e.g. cultural background.  I've inherited enough of the Brit 
vaudville thing, I think, to naturally fill in the sound track---but I 
wonder how "universal" your and my reaction is...
Lindsay