Visitor wrote:Loneliness Remembers is another tune that should have been a big hit. It was the flip of "Let Me Go To Him" and someone wrote about the Kraft Music Hall Special in about June of 70 that showed Dionne and Burt rehearsing the tune. The writer said that Dionne glanced at the score, giggled and said something like "Sounds groovy" and then proceeded to nail the tune cold on her first reading. Dionne's musical abilities were pretty awesome and she was so young when she and Burt were together in the 60s! I saw a snip of that clip and both Dionne and Burt were so attractive together. That young, very strikingly pretty Dionne (in June of 70 Dionne would have been either 28 or 29 depending on which birthdate is right-12/12/40 or 41) was really very cool in a short, straight bob haircut and some very groovy clothes and Burt was a very good-looking 40 or so). Anyway.....
One question regarding a lyric I can't make out. After the line
"and when you fall in love too fast, the sunshine doesn't last forever" and right before ..... first came the pleasure and then the pain"
can't make this out!!!.....
"Who is Gonna Love Me" is one of the greatest songs of Burt's to play on the piano, too. The Bm7 with a quick jump to E7 for just the ("gonna") before going to Am7 is fantastic. The whole song is fantastic and I've mentioned this song on this site along time ago too as being one of Burt's/Hal's/Dionne's greatest efforts.
Regarding "Loneliness...", here's the lyric that you can't understand:
"and when you fall in love too fast,
the sunshine doesn't last forever after,
with never a drop of rain,
first came the pleasure and then the pain.
We were the talk of the town.
Ask anybody around.
They'll let you know."
Now the problem you're facing is that the "forever after" above (in the second line) is broken in between the words! There's a pause after "forever" and the "after" is sung together with "with never a drop of rain", so it sounds like this:
"the sunshine doesn't last forever
after with never a drop of rain... etc."
I have to admit that it doesn't sound right either and that's why it's so confusing.
Burt and Hal do the same thing with "Close to You" in this spot:
"So they sprinkled moondust in your hair
of gold and starlight in your eyes of blue."
It really should read as follows:
"So they sprinkled moondust in your hair of gold
and starlight in your eyes of blue."
The confusion is in the meter of the lyric and where the pause and accents come.
Does this make sense to anyone?
(The funniest thing is when Engelburt Humperdinck sings the song. I swear to you this is how he sings it:
"So they sprinkled moondust in your hair
and gold and starlight in your eyes of blue."
In case you've missed it.... he doesn't sing "sprinkled moondust in your of gold and starlight in...." Instead he sings "sprinkled moondust in your hair AND gold and starlight in...." He totally doesn't understand what he's singing about. And this is because the lyric doesn't fit the meter.)
Bonjour rasputin;