song-a-and-dance

[Gillies, Lindsay]

grom grip:
On Thu, 18 Jan 1996 sybil at celtic.co.uk asked:

>       Is anyone aware of any of TRP's lyrics having been set to music and
> recorded?

Not me. But I will confess to making up tunes for some of the lyrics. A
while back when the discussion about taping GR came about, I thought
again about the reader singing tunes to those lyrics...
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Thing I find is, the lyrics strongly suggest popular songs (mainly vaudville 
and b'way) without much effort on my part---they just get up and dance by 
themselves.  which is why I was pondering on the extent to which my 
particular musical expose would make that easy or less so...the songs for me 
are part of the layer of GR that is a b'way musical, but one that somehow 
only appeared in film format.  As with many musical films of the late 30s 
and early 40s, song settings pop up in the most peculiar places, 
song-and-dance applied to almost any content whatever..