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Ken Hutchins's avatar

Listening to “Some Enchanted Evening” from the recent radio program, it wasn’t a Billy Strange arrangement but H.B. Barnum. And of course, we remember the Maurice Jarre song from Dr. Zhivago recoded (Somewhere My Love) for That’s Life album. Kaplan muses on the Rodgers song “some say Frank’s pique at Richard Rodgers for a scolding reminder to sing his songs “as written” - hence the Barnum arrangement.

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John Davis's avatar

I only knew the song from Ella Fitzgerald’s version, played very very often, so a welcome revelation. The line about being tired of eating food that’s canned is such a familiar 20th-century image of bachelor domestic incompetence that I thought it was conceived for a male voice, or even possibly a male character in a musical.

The Teddy Stauffer video ends like the opening of Leni Reifenstahl’s “Olympia.” It’s wholly a filmization of hurrying home. Though only instrumental here, I infer that the song, and the meaning of its title, must already have been somewhat familiar to German audiences.

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