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Thank you! May the humor stay fresh til the twelthy-twelth! The writer Rick Crom is a genius!

@@songbookjeff He is . . . more from you both, please!

Love that! 🎶♥️🎶

🎶 I wish! 🎶

Thank you 🙏🏻🎶♥️🎶

Write to Richard Skipper to see if he will post the video from that night

@@songbookjeff do you have an address for Richard Skipper? Thanks.

Thank you James 🙏🏻💜

He’s in Facebook - easy to find - or thru his website

James thank you so much. Alex’s arrangement from the 1980’s still dazzles me too 🙏🏻💜🙏🏻

Thanks Neil 🎶♥️🎶

James thank you so much! This was the first arrangement Alex shared with me back in the ‘80’s. Brilliant indeed!

Thank you James! I agree - what a wonderful time capsule in one wonderful tune. A brilliant lyric. 🎶💜🎶

A Mel Torme recording from years ago on which he performed Cole Porter’s YOU’RE THE TOP. He changed the lyric “your Garbo’s salary” to “your Redford’s salary.” It just seemed so very wrong.@@songbookjeff

Thank you James 🙏🏻💜🙏🏻

James is was GREAT to meet you & thank you for these very kind words. 🙏🏻

Our first show June 13, 1983 …. sadly loooong past kindergarten:-)

@@songbookjeff actually, not sad at all! Actually pretty effing marvelous!

James thank you & yes! I ♥️ Alex Rybeck

Thank you for being there & here Marieann 🙏🏻💜😘

That’s so lovely - thank you 🙏🏻

Rick Crom wove all those references into this so cleverly

Thanks James!

@@songbookjeff Always Jeff. Keep up the fabulous work! Always a treat to see what you’re going to pull out of your hat. Couldn’t edit. Meant to say ‘touch of Durante in this beautiful rendition.’ No second ‘touch.’ By the way if you can ever get hold of a Durante recording, give a listen. He really had a wonderful way with a song! As do you!

Have you heard the original Virginia Bruce rendition in 1936 “Born to Dance?” It was born a ballad and its seriousness is all there in Mr. Porter’s brilliant lyric.

@@songbookjeff Mr. Harnar, I just now got your generous reply. And as usual, I am always happy and willing to be schooled by a very fine and accomplished artist like yourself. But showing how a closed mind can be changed. I listened to your rendition again and was sold. Thanks Teach!

@@oscar646 it was a revelation to me to go back to the lyric. I had grown up hearing the song swung. Thanks for your generous response 🙏🏻

@@songbookjeff 🍎

Very excited to hear you’re at the Blue Strawberry next month here in St. Louis! Can I ask who will be your accompianist?

Thank you Therese! You were there that night! 🙏🏻🎶💜🎶

@@songbookjeff I thought so!

Rex - you’re the top! Thank you - Jeff

how wonderful to read this. I can’t believe how magnificent the orchestra sound on this extremely challenging score. boggles the mind & dazzles the ears all these years later 🙏🏻🎶💜🎶🙏🏻

@@songbookjeff Man, we did sound amazing, especially for a public high school orchestra WITH NO RINGERS! much of that credit goes to Stan Ackerman. You know the score is based on music of Borodin (the 2nd symphony and the Polovtsian dances), right? He programmed that repertoire for the orchestra THE YEAR BEFORE, so that most of us were already familiar with it before we ever got to the first Kismet rehearsal. I'm so thrilled you posted this. Brings back memories! Do you have video of other NTE productions? I remember one of the big news stations (CBS, maybe?) did a special on declining enrollment in schools and how it affected special programs like arts, and they came and filmed the dress rehearsal for the spring 1979 big concert. I know you'd already graduated by then, but I'd love to find that footage somewhere.

Stan Ackerman was brilliant to plan it that way. I have some Super 8 sound footage of Oklahoma (1976). Did you play that show? If you DM me I can send you a Dropbox link

@@songbookjeff I did not play it, as I was only a freshman, but I went to every performance!

@@songbookjeff UA-cam is weird. The message icon is not appearing on your page. I messaged you on the dreaded Facebook instead

Thank you 🙏🏻 🎶💜🎶

Thanks Ken 🙏🏻🎶💜🎶

Carole thank you for sharing our Sondheim at The Pheasantry 🙏🏻🎶💜🎶

Brilliant idea ! 😆 Let’s get Rick Crom writing it 🎶💜🎶

Thank you Alex 🙏🏻🎶💜🎶🙏🏻

Thank you Alex! 🙏🏻🎶💜🎶🙏🏻

Thanks Roxanne … I’m working on it 👍🏻🙏🏻💜

Did you get ahold of the entertainment management at Seabourn? I truly believe it is the best in the cruise industry (so much so that we purchased stock in it's parent company, and then purchased more stock as we believe that there is a pent-up desire to cruise after this pandemic).

thanks Rob! xox

Sam! thank you so much xox

thank you !