AtDTDA: 18 Moonlight Bay [513]

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

"Extraordinary how potent cheap music is."—Noel Coward

So you can say that Captain Peachfuzz over here* took the wheel, and 
nowwherethehellare we? But Dally and Kit are falling in something—a 
major break in the space-time continuum, perhaps? Whatever it is, the
two are separated by the different social strata so gloriously delineated
onboard an ocean liner, always available as a side cut-away view, and 
because of that handy visual menomic, making the Ocean Liner the
classic metaphor for class disparity. And as any script doctor in Hollywood 
would tell you, class disparity=boffo box office. Ø Meet cute [twice] and have 
all sorts of comic conflict, and there's several seasons of a rom/sitcom.
So, part of that dizzy feeling we're all feeling is that old black magic called 
love. If Dally and Kit meet'n'mate, we will have the marriage of anarchy
with alchemy, forming the first whispers of Chaos Magic [1], and again displaying
a postmodern sensibility overlaid on the high modernity of this ship of fools.

But tthat's not why I brought you together today. No, the elusive strains of 
an extraordinarily cheap bit of music are wafting in the background, and I 
wanted to bring it to the forground. That Noel Coward reference, well 
obviously the man's hovering topside near to bow, walking the deck, 
dodging the shuffleboard. . . .

Moonlight Bay:

          From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
          "On Moonlight Bay" is a popular song.

          The music was written by Percy Wenrich, the lyrics by Edward 
          Madden. The song was published in 1912. It was often sung in 
          a Barbershop Quartet style, such as by Billy Murray and the 
          American Quartet:

          The song was one of a number of early-20th-century songs which 
          were used as titles of musical films made by Doris Day in the late 
          1940s and early 1950s. . . .

                    Chorus

                    We were sailing along
                    On Moonlight Bay
                    You could hear the voices ringing
                    They seemed to say:
                    "You have stolen my heart"
                    "Now don't go 'way"
                    As we sang love's old sweet song
                    On Moonlight Bay
                    On Moonlight Bay...

          Trivia

          It has appeared in many Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies shorts, 
          often as a drinking song.

          It is sung by Porky Pig in the ironically-titled 1942 cartoon My 
          Favorite Duck, in which Porky is tormented by Daffy Duck while 
          on a camping trip. It was apparently chosen due to Porky's speech 
          impediment, which is especially noticeable with M's and B's. Daffy, 
          meanwhile, keeps singing "My Mama Done Tol' Me". At one point, 
          Porky unconsciously starts to sing Daffy's number, then stops, l
          ooks into the camera with a "Harumph!" and returns to his stuttering 
          version of "Moonlight Bay".

          It is revealed in episode 107 of Family Guy that Brian Griffin has the 
          ability to sing a four-part harmony at the same time. In a flashback 
          scene, this is the song he sings.

          It is sung several times in Nickelodeon's Hey Arnold.

          A spoof of this song was made by The Beatles with Morecambe and 
          Wise. It is found on Anthology 1.,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Moonlight_Bay_(song)

. . . .music doesn't come any cheaper than this. . . .

*that would be me, not like Chief Oberhauptheitzer over there, brandishing a 
Mannlicher at a spinning compass, nope—the actual captain of this vessel 
has decided to just let it splay, like all those pages that fell out of the 
middle of my copy of AtD. So the 'when' and 'where' is gonna be kinda 
sploogy fo a while, meanwhile, from the First Class dining saloon of the 
Stupendica we bring you the music of Ramón Raquello and his orchestra. . . .

Ø: "Titanic", obviously, comes to mind, but so does "Pretty Woman"

[1]: Thus deservedly recieving the thanks and devotion of Sub-Genie everywhere.