The Playwrights (Part 2): Shakespeare Triumphant Willy the Shake monopolizes the stage for two shows of '60's-early '80s music, solely devoted to his plays, apropos their titles and characters or quotes poached from them.
Time
Performer [Composer]
Song
Album [Format]
Misc
Misc –
REQ:Request
BED:Bed
NEW:New Release
( ):Label, Year Rec/Rel
Comment:
Background music, in order: (1) Gerry Mulligan Quartet - "Limelight" ("The Gerry Mulligan Quartet," Fantasy (US) / Vogue (UK) 1953) (2) Coley Arnez - "Fever" (Single A-Side, Old Town 1962) (3) Vinny Bell - "Fever" ("Whistle Stop," Verve 1964) (4) The T-Bones - "Fever" ("No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)," Liberty 1966) (5) The Ventures - "Fever" ("Where the Action Is," Dolton 1965) (6) Oops...Coley Arnez again (7) King Curtis - "Fever" ("Old Gold," True-Sound 1961) (8) The Ernie Freeman Combo - "Fever" ("Comin' Home Baby - Stone Rocker," Liberty 1963)
Damn! Got the mention of The Beatles' "Act Naturally," in relation to the Buck Owens hit version, wrong, mentioning that the former was from the "White Album." I got it confused with another Ringo-sung song, "Don't Pass Me by." Poo.
Quote from "Romeo and Juliet": "Eyes, look your last! /
Arms, take your last embrace! / and, lips, O you
The doors of breath / seal with a righteous kiss," as well as from "Hamlet": "The rest is silence."
Pseudo quote from "Romeo and Juliet": "The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune." However, the world "fortune" is changed to "romance." Also from "Hamlet": "Neither a borrower nor a lender be."
Macbeth plus Cleopatra ("Antony and Cleopatra"), Hamlet and Ophelia ("Hamlet"), Alice ("Henry V") Falstaff ("Henry IV Parts 1 and 2" and "Merry Wives of Windsor")
Quote from "As You Like It": "All the world's indeed a stage /
We are merely players /
Performers and portrayers /
Each another's audience outside the gilded cage."
Quote from "As You Like It": "Under the greenwood tree
Who loves to lie with me /
And tune his merry note /
Unto the sweet bird's throat /
Come hither, come hither, come hither /
Here shall he see no enemy /
But winter and rough weather /
Who doth ambition shun /
And loves to live in the sun /
Seeking the food he eats /
And pleased with what he gets /
Come hither, come hither, come hither /
Here shall he see no enemy /
But winter and rough weather /
And if it do come to pass /
That any man turn ass /
Leaving his wealth and ease /
A stubborn will to please /
Ducdame, ducdame, ducdame /
There shall he see gross fools as he /
And if he will come to me /
If he will come to me."
