FROM MUSICALS:
Jerry Herman - A DAY IN HOLLYWOOD: "Nelson" (a hilarious send-up of Nelson
Eddy; vocally, the singer needs to mimic Jeanette MacDonald - several
other songs from this musical are probably also appropriate)
Jerry Herman - MACK AND MABEL: "Look what's happened to Mabel" (Mabel
Normand takes stock of her own career.)
Willy Russell - BLOOD BROTHERS: any of Mrs Johnstone's songs includes at
least one extremely tortured rhyme enabling her to compare the latest
tragic event in her life to Marilyn Monroe. (Frankly, this is a musical to
be avoided like an envelope full of anthrax.)
Collins Harlan - ZIEGFELD FOLLIES OF 1915: "Those Charlie Chaplin Feet"
Cole Porter - LET'S FACE IT: "Let's not talk about love" (The whole song
is about the movie industry, with lots of different witty comments about
different movie stars.)
Also, some passing references in:
Cole Porter - ANYTHING GOES: "You're the Top" (references to Fred Astaire,
Jimmy Durante, Greta Garbo, Mae West - if you do all the verses)
Rodgers & Hart - JUMBO: "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" ("...isn't
Garbo, isn't Dietrich")
Richard O'Brien - ROCKY HORROR SHOW: "Silent Picture/Double Feature"
(references to Michael Rennie, Claud Rains, Fay Wray, Jeanette Scott, Dana
Andrews,
George Powell - the song, however, is rated R or even NC-17)
ART SONGS, CABARET SONGS, PARLOUR SONGS:
Haydn Wood: "Charlie Chaplin"
Seymour Barab - PARODIES: "Charlie Chaplin"
OPERAS AND MUSICALS ABOUT MOVIE STARS:
Domenick Argento: THE DREAM OF VALENTINO (don't know if there's anything
excerptable from the score)
Francesca Di Giosa and Charles Mandracchia: VALENTINO: THE MUSICAL
(http://www.valentinothemusical.com/)
POP SONGS:
Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields: "Rudolph Valentino (There's a New Star in
Heaven Tonight)"
Warrington & Wolfson: "Charlie Chaplin Walk"
Lieber & Stoller: "Humphrey Bogart"
Mcarthy & Monaco: "(Dear Mr. Gable) You Made me Love You" (made famous by
the late, great Judy Garland)
Elton John & Bernie Taupin: "Candle in the Wind" (the ORIGINAL version was
a song about Marilyn Monroe)
Brian Ferry: "Goddess of Love" (another song about Marilyn)
There was another "Charlie Chaplin" sung by Tania
Tsanaclidou, the Greek entry, in the EuroVision Song Contest in 1978 -
don't know who wrote it.
This is all I can think of at the moment.
Karen Mercedes
http://www.radix.net/~dalila/index.html
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I will sing with the spirit, and I
will sing with the understanding also.
1 Corinthians 14:15
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