I read an interesting story about the song “Save The Last Dance For Me.” The lyricist, Doc Pomus, contacted polio as a child and was thereafter confined to a wheelchair. When he got married, he couldn’t dance with his bride. He wrote this song remembering what it felt like to watch his bride dance with his brother at his own wedding. He wrote it on the back of an invitation to the wedding.
L. tells me that the song “I Get A Kick Out Of You” by Cole Porter also has a moving story behind it. Apparently, Cole had slept with a sailor, who then felt gay remorse after hooking up with Cole and so beat him and kicked him until he was bloody. Cole wrote the song remembering the sailor and what he got out of him.
Everyone knows that “Amazing Grace” was written by a slave-trader. I had thought that he wrote it after he abandoned the slave trade, but Wikipedia says he abandoned the slave-trade many years after writing the song, and that he only did so then because he was too old to sail.
Here is the story behind the song “Can’t We All Just Get A Long (Neck)?” I have never heard that song and after reading the webpage I don’t think I would ever care to.
it is so damn sad that doc pomus should have so many leftover wedding invitations that he started using them as writing paper! damn it! if he knew he didn’t have that many people who wanted to come to his cripple wedding, why did he have to go and print so many goddarn wedding invitations? it makes me mad. it really does.
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