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The complete lyrics of Frank Loesser

Uniform Title
Lyrics
Title
The complete lyrics of Frank Loesser / edited by Robert Kimball and Steve Nelson.
ISBN
0679450599
9780679450597
Edition
First edition.
Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
Physical Description
271 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Local Notes
BEIN Zab W8311 Zz2003L: Dust jacket. From the David Wolf Papers. Accompanied by: Publisher's press release letter dated November 20, 2003 (1 leaf).
Notes
Includes index.
Summary
A collection of the complete lyrics of the American songwriter whose achievements include "Guys and Dolls" and "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" is complemented by historical commentary and rare photographs.
Other formats
Online version: Loesser, Frank, 1910-1969. Lyrics. Complete lyrics of Frank Loesser. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 2003
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 14, 2004
Contents
Songs of 1929-1935. Alone in your class (little girl) ; Let's incorporate ; Melancholy me ; Doing the dishes ; Where the grass grows green ; Ticker tape tap ; Satan ; In love with a memory of you ; I'll see you in the morning
Libretto for an opera. Things have come to a pretty pass ; I'm a gentleman ; Oh heaven, give me strength tonight ; Eggs ; I regard you with suspicion ; If that's what you're looking for ; When Isabella likes a fella ; Abyssinia ; Acrobats (the hiccough song)
Hollywood be thy name. If I can't get the man I want ; He went like this, so I went like that ; My football hero! ; Looking out the window at the rain
I've got so much to forget ; Spaghetti ; Junk man ; The old oak tree ; Goo goo g'da ; I wishi I were twins ; Stars on the highway ; Oh! What a beautiful baby you turned out to be ; Home ties ; Doesn't that mean anything to you? ; Sunday at sundown ; The traffic was terrific ; I just came back to haunt you (boogy boogy boogy boo!)
Poetic gems. Ev'rybody's ship comes in (but mine) ; A symphony in green ; Take me home to the mountains ; Indian moon ; Little miss mischief ; Down the lane to yesterday ; By a silvery stream ; The snowflakes ; Don't grow any older (my little boy blue) ; Here's to the builder ; Get under the sun ; A real true pal ; Backseat drivers
Songs of 1936-1937. The illustrators' show. Bang - the bell rang! ; Wild trumpets and crazy piano (got a gal to forget)
Postal inspector. Let's have bluebirds ; Hot towel
Yellowstone. Joggin' along
The man I marry. Old homestead ; I know I'm in Harlem
Three smart girls. You're my heart ; Life is peaches and cream ; Since when ; Heart of Harlem
The golfers. Meany, miny, moe
Mysterious crossing. The railroad that ran through our land
Everybody sings. Everybody sings
A duck hunt. A-hunting we will go
Walter Wanger's vougues of 1938. Lovely one
Fight for your lady. Blame it on the Danube
The hurricane. The moon of Manakoora
Blossoms on Broadway. You can't tell a man by his hat ; No ring on her finter
Miscellaneous songs of 1936-1937. A tree in Tipperary ; Chile moonlight ; Here comes tomorrow (gimme another kiss goodnight) ; Kiss at midnight ; Striver's row to Sugar Hill ; Forevermore ; Shim-sham rumba ; Dream tonight
Songs of 1938. College swing. The old school bell ; College swing ; What did Romeo say to Juliet? ; How'dja like to love me? ; I fall in love with you every day ; You're a natural ; Moments like this ; What a rumba does to romance ; Beans
Stolen heaven. Boys in the band
Cocoanut grove. Says my heart ; Ten easy lessons
The Texans. I'll come to the wedding
Give me a sailor. Give me a sailor ; I'm in dreamland
Sing you sinners. Small fry
Freshman year. Chasing you around
Spawn of the north. I wish I was the willow ; I like humped-backed salmon
Men with wings. Men with wings
Thanks for the memory. Two sleepy people
A song is born. Heart and soul
Miscellaneous songs of 1938. Enchanted ; Wallpaper roses
Songs of 1939. Zaza. Zaza ; Hello, my darling ; Forget me ; He died of love ; I'm the stupidest girl in the class ; Street song
St. Louis blues. Oh, you Mississippi ; I go for that ; Junior ; Blue nightfall ; The song in my heart is a rumba
Cafe society. Kiss me with your eyes ; Park avenue gimp
Some like it hot. Some like it hot ; The lady's in love iwth you ; Whodunit?
The Gracie Allen murder case. Snug as a bug in a rug
Heritage of the desert. Here's a heart
Man about town. That sentimental sandwich ; Fidgety Joe ; Strange enchantment ; Man about town ; Petty girl ; Routine ; A love letter
Invitation to happiness. Invitation to happiness
Beau Geste. The legionnaire's song
Island of lost men. Music on the shore
The star maker. Valse des fleurs
Hawaiian nights. Hawaii sang me to sleep ; Then I wrote the minuet in G ; Hey, good-looking
$1,000 a touchdown. Fight on for Madison
Destry rides again. Little Joe, the wrangler ; You've got that look (that leaves me weak) ; The boys in the backroom
The Llano kid. El huapango ; Posada ; Starry eyes
The great Victor Herbert. Happy day ; Wonderful dreams ; You are beautiful
Miscellaneous songs of 1939. If I'd never been in love before ; When you're dressed in blue ; Fragrant night ; Bubbles in the wine ; I'm all a-tremble over you ; I kinda dream ; Old fashioned love ; Here comes the night ; That moonlight from last night ; Night-blooming jasmine
Songs of 1940. All women have secrets. Rockabye baby - interruption
The farmer's daughter. Jungle jingle
Seventeen. Seventeen
Adventure in diamonds. The whistler's ditties ; A flea flew in my flute ; Love in bloom (special lyrics)
Johnny Apollo. Dancing for nickels and dimes ; Your kiss
Buck Benny rides again. Say it (over and over again) ; My! My! ; My kind of country ; Drums in the night ; Roses round my room
Typhoon. Palms of paradise
Those were the days. Alpha Rho song ; Any minute now ; Siwash alma mater ; We're all here at Siwash ; Siwash spring song
The quarterback. Out with your chest (and up with your chin)
Seven sinners. The man's in the navy ; I fall overboard ; I've been in love before
Dancing on a dime. Manana ; I hear music ; Operatic prologue to "I hear music" reprise ; Lovable sort of person ; Dancing on a dime ; Debutante number one
Youth will be served. With a banjo on my knee ; Youth will be served ; Hot catfish and corn dodgers
Moon over Burma. Mexican magic ; Moon over Burma
Miscellaneous songs of 1940. By the by
Songs of 1941. A night at Earl Carroll's. Li'l boy love ; I wanna make with the happy times ; I've walked through wonderland
Arizona sketches. Prarieland lullaby
Las Vegas nights. I gotta ride ; Mary, Mary, quite contrary ; Dolores ; On Miami shore prologue
Sis Hopkins. Look at you, look at me ; That ain't hay (that's the U.S.A) ; Well! Well! ; If you're in love ; Cracker barrel county
There's magic in music. The stuttering song ; What sort of music does the public like?
Caught in the draft. Love me as I am
Manpower. He lied and I listened
Kiss the boys goodbye. Kiss the boys goodbye ; Find yourself a melody ; Sand in my shoes ; I'll never let a day pass by ; That's how I got my start ; We've met somewhere before
World premiere. Don't cry, little cloud
Aloma of the south seas. The white blossoms of Tah-ni
Hold back the dawn. My boy, my boy
Sailors on leave. Since you ; Sentimental folks
Henry Aldrich for president. Johnny Jones
Birth of the blues. Memphis blues (special lyrics)
Glamour boy. The magic of Magnolias ; Love is such an old-fashioned thing
Miscellaneous songs of 1941. Ahoy, Minnie
Songs of 1942. Mr. Bug goes to twon. Katy-did, katy-didn't ; Boy, oh boy! ; We're the couple in the castle ; I'll dance at your wedding (honey dear)
Reap the wild wind. Sea chanty
This gun for hire. Now you see it, now you don't ; I've got you ; I'm amazed at you
Tortilla flat. Ai-Paisano ; Oh, how I love a wedding
True to the army. In the army ; Spangles on my tights ; Need I speak? ; Swing in line ; Jitterbug's lullaby ; Wacky for khaki ; Ophelia ; We're building men
Beyond the blue horizon. Malay love song ; Pagan lullaby
Sweater girl. Sweater girl ; I said no ; I don't want to walk without you ; What gives out now? ; Booker T. Washignton brigade
Priorities on parade. Johnny's patter ; Here comes Katrinka ; You're in love with someone else (but I'm in love with you) ; Payday
The forest rangers. Jingle, jangle, jingle ; Tall grows the timber
Seven days' leave. Please, won't you leave my girl alone? ; You speak my language ; A touch of Texas ; I get the neck of the chicken ; Can't get out of this mood ; Soft hearted ; Puerto Rico ; Baby
Miscellaneous songs of 1942. Praise the lord and pass the ammunition ; The moon is down ; Song of the windhield wiper
Songs of 1943. Happy go lucky. Sing a tropical song ; Happy go lucky ; Murder, he says ; Let's get lost ; The fuddy-duuddy watchmaker ; Jerry or Joe
Tornado. here goes my dream
Army show. Hello, mom
Thank your lucky stars. Thank your lucky stars ; I'm ridin' for a fall ; We're staying home tonight (my baby and me) ; I'm goin' north ; Love isn't born (it's made) ; No you, no me ; The dreamer ; Ice cold Katy ; How sweet you are ; That's what you jolly well get ; They're either too young or too old ; Good night, good neighbor ; Closing medley
Riding high. Music from paradise
Miscellaneous songs of 1943. What do you do in the infantry? ; Have I stayed away too long? ; You haven't got cheeks like roses
Songs of 1944-1945. Skirts
See here, Private Hargrove. In my arms
About face!. Dog face ; Gee, but it's great ; First class private Mary Brown ; PX parade ; Why do they call a private a private?
The road to victory
Christmas holiday. Spring will be a little late this year
And the angels sing. Shake hands with your neighbor
Hi, yank!. Yank, yank, yank ; The saga of the sack ; My gal and I ; My gal's working at lockheed ; General orders ; Classification blues ; Little red rooftops ; The most important job
P.F.C. Mary Brown. Something new has been added ; In twenty-five words or less ; New-style bonnet ; Come on, honey ; Poor lonely MP ; Lost in a cloud of blue ; The WAC hymn
Okay U.S.A. A trip round the USA ; Way down Texas way ; My Chicago ; Miss America ; Tonight in San Francisco ; When he comes home ; The tall pines ; You're okay, USA!!
Animal songs. The bee ; The dog ; The duck ; The fish ; The horse ; The mouse ; The owl ; The seal ; The worm
It's the goods. Civvy in a fork lift truck ; Is this by chance romance? ; Heroes ; What might have been ; All the way ; What a way to win a war ; Let's make it forever ; It's the goods
Miscellaneous osngs of 1944-45. Leave us face it (we're in love) ; The one-pip wonder ; The sad bombardier ; One little WAC ; Salute to the army service forces ; Buy a bond (what have you got to lose?) ; Rodger young ; Two beautiful things ; Wave to me, my lady ; Port battalions on parade
Songs of 1946-1947. The day before spring. It's time for the love scene ; Who could forget you? ; Bing bang ; My sentimental nature ; You're so reliable ; Ibbedy bibbedy sibbedy sab
The pearls of Pauline. The sewing maching ; Rumble, rumble, rumble ; I wish I didn't love you so ; Poppa, don't preach to me ; The firemen's ball
Variety girl. Your heart calling mine ; Tallahassee ; He can waltz ; Impossible things ; We French, we get so excited ; The French, they get so excited ; (I must have been) madly in love ; I want my money back
Miscellaneous songs of 1947. Pindy Fendy ; Bloop, bleep! ; What are you doing New Year's Eve ; Keep your eye on the sky ; A tune for humming
Where's Charley?: 1948. The years before us ; Better get out of here ; The new Ashmolean marching society and students' conservatory band ; My darling, my darling ; Make a miracle ; Serenade with asides ; Lovelier than ever ; The woman in his room ; Pernambuco ; Where's Charley? ; Once in love with Amy ; The gossips ; At the red rose cotillion
Cut and unused songs. Culture and breeding ; Saunter away ; Your won college band ; The train that brought you to town ; Don't introduce me to that angel
Songs of 1948-1950. On our merry way. The queen of the Hollywood islands
Neptune's daughter. I love those men ; On a slow boat to China ; My heart beats faster ; Baby, it's cold outside ; Neptune's daughter
Roseanna Mccoy. Roseanna
Red, hot and blue. I wake in the morning feeling fine ; That's loyalty ; Hamlet ; (Where are you now) Now that I need you
Let's dance. Can't stop talking ; Jack and the beanstalk ; Oh, them dudes ; Why fight the feeling? ; The hyacinth ; Tunnel of love ; The ming toy noodle company
Miscellaneous songs of 1948-1950. Guys and dolls: 1950. Fugue for tinhorns ; Follow the fold ; The oldest established ; I'll know ; A bushel and a peck ; Adelaide's lament ; Guys and dolls ; If I were a bell ; My time of day ; I've never been in love before ; Take back your mink ; Adelaide's second lament ; More I cannot wish you ; Luck be a lady ; Sue me ; Sit down you're rockin' the boat ; Adelaide meets Sarah ; Marry the man today
Cut and unused songs. Shango ; Traveling light ; Nathan's problem ; It feels like forever ; I come a-running ; Three-cornered tune
Guys and Dolls (film): 1955. Pet me, Poppa ; Adelaide ; A woman in love
Hans Christian Andersen: 1952. The king's new clothes ; The inch worm ; I'm Hans Christian Andersen ; Wonderful Copenhagen ; Street voices ; Thumbelina ; The ugly duckling ; Anywhere I wander ; No two people ; The shoe song ; Give your love to me ; Second fantasy ; So you want to be a fireman?
The msot happy fella: 1956. Ooh! My feet! ; I know how it is and seven million crumbs and I don't know and maybe he's kind of crazy ; Somebody, somewhere ; Prelude to "the most happy fella" ; The most happy fella ; A long time ago ; Standing on a corner ; Joey, Joey, Joey ; Soon you gonna leave me, Joe ; Rosabella ; Abbondanza ; Plenty bambini ; Sposalizio ; I seen her at the station ; Benvenuta ; Aren't you glad ; No home, no job ; Don't cry ; Fresno beauties and cold and dead ; Love and kindness ; Happy to make your acquaintance ; I don't like this dame ; Big D ; HOw beautiful the days ; Young people ; Warm all over ; Old people gotta ; I like ev'rybody ; I love him ; Like a woman loves a man ; My heart is so full of you ; Mamma, maama ; Goodbye darlin' ; I like ev'rybody (duet) ; Song of a summer night ; Please let me tell you ; Tell Tony and Rosabella goodbye for me ; She's gonna come home wit' me and nobody's ever gonna love you (trio) ; I made a fist ; Finale
Cut and unused songs. How's about tonight? (part 1) ; House and garden ; How's about tonight? (part 2) ; Love letter ; So busy ; Is it really real? and wanting to be wanted ; Joe's entrance ; Everybody is talking ("Rosabella" part 1) ; Nobody's ever gonna love you ; I'm-a no wanna ; Collar incident ; Six o'clock train ; Marie and Doc ; Aren't you glad-tag ; Mad money ; Eyes like a stranger ; Such a pretty picture ; Doctors don't tell you everything ; They're throwing a party today ; Lover's quarrel ; I'll buy everybody a beer
Dream people: 1957 and other songs of 1951-1961. Dream people. Dream people (opening) ; Imagining ; Dream people (part II) ; At the home appliance show ; Marshmallow magic ; We harmonize ; Wont'cha settle for me? ; Amateur psychiatrist ; For the fam'ly album ; The green-eyed monster ; Take me now
Other songs of 1951-1961. Meet me at the college bowl ; We're in love with those wonderful guys ; Girls' school alma mater ; Stone walls ; Makes me feel good all over ; No swallerin' place ; Benny to Helen to chance ; Just another polka ; All is forgiven (and all is forgotten) ; Crying polka ; Warm and willing ; Don't send Lucy to the store ; Piels beer commercial ; Analysts's wife
Greenwillow: 1960. A day borrowed from heaven ; Dorrie's wish ; A-tangle, a-dangle ; Amos long entrance ; The music of home ; Gideon Briggs, I love you ; Summertime love ; Blasphemy ; Walking away whistling ; The sermon ; Could've been a ring ; Gideon Briggs, I love you (solo) ; Never will I marry ; Greenwillow Christmas ; Faraway boy ; Clang dang the bell ; What a blessing ; He died good ; The music of home (finale)
Cut and unused songs. Riddleweed ; My beauty ; All a-tousle ; The call ; A head on her shoulders ; Buzz a buzz ; Percussion ballad ; Heart of stone ; Down in the barley
How to succeed in business without really trying: 1961 and Leocadia: 1962. How to succeed in business without really trying. How to succeed in business without really trying ; Happy to keep his dinner warm ; Coffee break ; The company way ; A secretary is not a toy ; Been a long day ; Grand old ivy ; Paris original ; Rosemary ; Finale, act one ; Cinderella, darling ; Love from a heart of gold ; I believe in you ; Brotherhood of man
Cut and unused songs. Status ; I worry about you ; Organization man ; Company man ; Knit pretty ; World wide wicket ; White-collar world ; Bless this day ; Lashes ; The business man's shuffle ; Bumper to bumper ; Reaction to heady ; Marvelous mind
Leocadia. Only the rich ; You live in my heart ; I am a jolly peasant ; Speak to me
Pleasures and palaces: 1965. I hear bells ; My lover is a scoundrel ; To marry ; Hail, majesty ; Thunder and lightning ; To your health ; Neither the time nor the place ; I desire you ; In your eyes ; Truly loved ; Sins of Sura ; Hoorah for Jones ; Propaganda ; Foreigners ; Barabanchik ; What is life? ; Ah, to be home again ; Pleasures and palaces ; Tears of joy ; Far, far, far away
Cut and unused songs. Catherine the great ; Potemkin's solo (a wonderful husband is he) ; The fruit ; Peaceful harbor ; Partial martial ; Rodyina ; At the victory ball ; Kat ; As a man of high importance ; Song for Bobby
Senor discretion himself: 1965-1968. Padre, I have sinned ; To see her ; Pan pan pan ; Papa, come home ; Pancito's song ; World peace ; If you love me, you'll forgive me ; You understand me ; Heaven smiles on Tepancingo ; I love him, I think ; Companeros ; Julio's first song ; Mexico city ; I only know ; Hasta la vista ; Don't drink ; Goodbye agitato ; I cannot let you go ; Goodbye agitato/I cannot let you go (reprise) ; The wisdom of the heart ; Traveling carnival ; Got to have a somebody ; Hilario's home-made ballad ; As long as he is only a dream ; Now I love her ; he real curse of drunk ; Martin (to the PTA) ; The padre
Trunk songs and verse, 1939-1969. And then we met ; I met you ; April in April ; Asking for trouble ; The boycott: a waltz for anybody - 1964 ; The delicatessen of my dreams ; Every love ; For god and Gideon ; Helen to Ricky (after dialogue about smoking, drinking, etc.) ; I could have told you ; Les oeufs (balls) ; A man can be talented and also be nice ; Lyrics for a leading man in an unconvincing operetta ; My opening son ; Nostalgia ; On the other side of the room ; On the road to romance ; Tell me no tall, tall tale ; That was my love I gave you ; The wind blows in my window ; Yesterday's love ; Untitled - for Gordon Jenkins ; Untitled - on cardboard ; No sales slip necessary ; Nursery rhyme for child who misses her mobile stolen from nursery by idiot who thought it was worth something because it moved ; Unrhymed images for the mind that seeks no comfort ; Mozart's hiding, not dead ; Poem with which to proclaim extent of erudition and draw cheers from those who looked the words up too ; Holiday for jews? ; Diggerel doggerel, Muriel Hollander ; A word from junior ; My doctor said ; Plea to my wife.
Partial contents
Songs of 1929-1935
Songs of 1936-1937
Songs of 1938
Songs of 1939
Songs of 1940
Songs of 1941
Songs of 1942
Songs of 1943
Songs of 1944-1945
Songs of 1946-1947
Where's Charley?
Songs of 1948-1950
Guys and dolls
Hans Christian Andersen
The most happy fella
Dream people, and other songs of 1951-1961
Greenwillow
How to succeed in business without really trying ; Leocadia
Pleasures and palaces
Señor Discretion himself
Trunk songs and verse, 1939-1969.
Genre/Form
Librettos.
Excerpts.
Texts.
Excerpts.
Librettos.
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Kimball, Robert, editor.
Nelson, Stephen, 1952- editor.
United States New York (State) New York.
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