When I was growing up, the music usually played by my parents consisted of classical, Folk music, and Broadway show tunes. When we were driving my mom crazy on a Saturday or Sunday, my dad would often throw my older brothers and me into the car, drive downtown, and we'd go to a Broadway matinee. There are some great songs in the genre. Bye-bye Birdie, (loosely based on the Elvis phenomena), is a great show. In 7th grade we had to do a book report on Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. At the time I was a big Mad Magazine fan. They used to do musicials where the lyrics were printed with an asterisk proclaiming sung to the tune of ... For my book report I wrote several songs for a musicial version of Julius Caesar sung to the tune of songs from Bye-bye Birdie. I still remember One Last Stab, to be sung to the tune of One Last Kiss during the murder of Caesar:
2nd verse:
Oh one last slice,
yes Brutus, one last slice.
It really would be nice,
if you gave the last slice,
He might say dsomething cute,
like et tu Brute
If you gave the last slice.
(Do I hear a few moans out there?)
Bill, tgo
