GRGR(13) Soundtrack

[RICHARD_WILSON at udlp.com]

Doug inquires (re the Displaced Person's song)
> Is this song the first in GR that's not a
> wisecracking parody?

here's the soundtrack thus far:
1) Osbie Feel's 'have a banana' song - pp 8-9
2) the sapper crew's 'colder than...' song - p 11
3) Pirate Prentice's 'having other peop-le's fan-tasies' song - p 12
4) Novi Pazar song - pp 14-5
5) 'Slothrop, snap-to' marching song - pp 61-2
6) 'Rhy-thm's got me' - p 62
7) 'Down the toilet, lookit me' (though kinda a continuation of #5) - p 66
8) 'Now don't you remember Red Malcom up there' - p 67
9) Red River Valley - p 68
10) Crutchfield's pard song - p 68
11) Katje's ancestors' golden swine song - p 108
12) Heinrich Suso macaronic carol - p 129 & 136
13) charming anti-semitic street refrain from Leni Pokler's childhood - p 163
14) Hansel and Gretel song - pp 174-5
15) altered children's version of Hark The Herald Angels Sing - p 177
16) The Englishman's Very Shy - pp 182-3
17) The Ballad of Tantivy Muffer-Maffick - pp 191-2
18) Too Soon To Know - pp 195-6
19) The World Over There song - p 203
20) Vulgar Song - p 213
21) The Penis He Thought Was His Own - pp 216-7
22) Pavlovia - pp 229-30
23) Brigadier Pudding's musical (in)version of Psalm 51 - p 231
24) Carl Orf's Tempest Est Iocundum from _Carmina Burana_ - p 237
25) Slothrop's 'Mis-ter Debo-nair' song - p 244
26) Julia - p 245
27) Loonies On Leave! - p 259
28) Displaced Person's song - pp 283-4
29) 'Well good mornin' gang' song - p 289
30) Geli's 'Love never goes away' song - pp 289-90

(i can't quite tell if there's any overall pattern here... anyone else see one?)

not all of the songs preceding the DP song seem parodical to me. however, those
which  TRP penned himself tend to have an aura of either vaudevillean silliness
or enlisted-man vulgarity about them. the lyrics to the Hansel and Gretel song
are rather bleak and poignant at the end though. 

but i agree, the DP song stands apart from the musical offerings up to this
point. and an intentional echo of the songwriting style of the person to whom GR
is dedicated would not come as a surprise.

re Geli's song, for Geli's song we are given the time signature. i'm not sure if
this is true of any of the others (though i guess it's implicit in those for
which we are also given a dance form).

--rwilson 

"try an' 'av a little respect - it *is* a f#@!ing opera" -- keith moon