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capri0mniAnd all other Pro-Fun Trolls in my Circle, when it comes down to it:
Here are the last minutes (just shy of ten) of On the Riviara, starring Danny Kaye (yes, more of him).
Though the more of him I see, the more I want to go back in time and hang out with Sylvia Fine-- his wife, producer, and personal song writer. She's the one who wrote this epilogue song, and that song is the reason I'm making this post. Yet all the information about her I can find is seen through the filter of her husband. When it could just have easily been the other way around.
Anyway, I stumbled across this song in the wee hours. If ever a song were a pro-fun Anthem, this would be it:
This song starts on the vid at around 6:38, and as good an epilogue for its genre as Shakespeare ever wrote for one of his comedies. Really.
And talk about meta! meta-loving Geeks, rejoice!
HAPPY ENDING
Stay where you are --
Listen to me:
Before you make your mind up
What the wind-up oughta be.
Though it used to be chic
For the end to be bleak,
The fad to be sad has been had
{Had had!}
Or do you like your drama
Oh, so stark
That when the lights go on
{Where are you?}
Still in the dark!
Misery
May be some people's
Cup of tea --
But, Brother --
Not me!
It makes me feel so good
When I see a happy ending
Give me a happy ending every time!
It makes me feel so bad
When the curtain is descending
And lovers aren't blending --
That's a crime!
Don't want the hero
To be the one who done it.
Don't want the heroine
Left all alone to gun it.
If that's corny,
Don't ever let 'em stop corn --
I wanna relax
And eat my popcorn!
So make me feel real good
When I see that final fade-out
I want that mortgage paid out --
Every dime!
Want to yip it!
Want to yock it!
Leave my hanky in my pocket
And see a happy ending
Every time!
{Big musical break, with jazzy dancing and clapping}
In a Western, the time I really love it
Is when the doctor yells:
"Hot water and plenty of it!"
And when the villian's full of grits
The hero's had-away -- [??]
Look out!
{Gun effects}
"They went that-away!"
So bring the gal onstage
To take that final entrance
And make that final entrance
Look sublime!
Let her start to sing a ditty,
Or just stand there and look pretty
Let her really reek with glamour
As we wind up this here dramer!
While we dance it
While we shout it
While we leave no doubt about it --
We like a happy ending
Every time!
Yip it!
Yock it!
Hanky in your pocket!
Happy Ending
Every Time!
Why, oh why is this not a pop-culture standard?
Here are the last minutes (just shy of ten) of On the Riviara, starring Danny Kaye (yes, more of him).
Though the more of him I see, the more I want to go back in time and hang out with Sylvia Fine-- his wife, producer, and personal song writer. She's the one who wrote this epilogue song, and that song is the reason I'm making this post. Yet all the information about her I can find is seen through the filter of her husband. When it could just have easily been the other way around.
Anyway, I stumbled across this song in the wee hours. If ever a song were a pro-fun Anthem, this would be it:
This song starts on the vid at around 6:38, and as good an epilogue for its genre as Shakespeare ever wrote for one of his comedies. Really.
And talk about meta! meta-loving Geeks, rejoice!
HAPPY ENDING
Stay where you are --
Listen to me:
Before you make your mind up
What the wind-up oughta be.
Though it used to be chic
For the end to be bleak,
The fad to be sad has been had
{Had had!}
Or do you like your drama
Oh, so stark
That when the lights go on
{Where are you?}
Still in the dark!
Misery
May be some people's
Cup of tea --
But, Brother --
Not me!
It makes me feel so good
When I see a happy ending
Give me a happy ending every time!
It makes me feel so bad
When the curtain is descending
And lovers aren't blending --
That's a crime!
Don't want the hero
To be the one who done it.
Don't want the heroine
Left all alone to gun it.
If that's corny,
Don't ever let 'em stop corn --
I wanna relax
And eat my popcorn!
So make me feel real good
When I see that final fade-out
I want that mortgage paid out --
Every dime!
Want to yip it!
Want to yock it!
Leave my hanky in my pocket
And see a happy ending
Every time!
{Big musical break, with jazzy dancing and clapping}
In a Western, the time I really love it
Is when the doctor yells:
"Hot water and plenty of it!"
And when the villian's full of grits
The hero's had-away -- [??]
Look out!
{Gun effects}
"They went that-away!"
So bring the gal onstage
To take that final entrance
And make that final entrance
Look sublime!
Let her start to sing a ditty,
Or just stand there and look pretty
Let her really reek with glamour
As we wind up this here dramer!
While we dance it
While we shout it
While we leave no doubt about it --
We like a happy ending
Every time!
Yip it!
Yock it!
Hanky in your pocket!
Happy Ending
Every Time!
Why, oh why is this not a pop-culture standard?
