Since the Puritans got a shock when they landed on Plymouth Rock

[sovay]

The best piece of random information I've heard so far this week, from a musicologist I met over dinner as he was putting together a paper on the permutation of lyrics in Cole Porter's "Anything Goes" and "You're the Top" (from Anything Goes): that he has collected 89 versions of the latter, and one of them is a bawdy parody by Irving Berlin:

You're the burning heat
Of a bridal suite in use;
You're the breasts of Venus,
You're King Kong's penis,
You're self-abuse!

Perversely, this has made me feel much better about Irving Berlin.

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[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

I, too, just saw my opinion of Irving Berlin rise at least a notch and a half.

[sovay]

I only wish there were a recording . . .