"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 01/19/2016 at 17:00 • Filed to: None

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I just realized that the main theme and lyrics to Thoroughly Modern Millie are a ripoff/homage/answer to Anything Goes. Is that like... something people have recognized? #YesIKnowTooMuchAboutMusicalsShutUp

CB > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/19/2016 at 17:06

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Thoroughly Modern Millie ruined my life.

lone_liberal > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/19/2016 at 17:16

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And Make ‘Em Laugh is a copy of Be A Clown but since Cole Porter didn’t want to make an enemy of MGM so he let it slide.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > CB 01/19/2016 at 17:31

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Carol Channing is the form of the Destroyer.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > lone_liberal 01/19/2016 at 17:33

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It’s also possible that Donald O’Connor was just too much of a musicals badass to front on. That routine is legend.

lone_liberal > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/19/2016 at 17:35

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That can not be argued.

Berang > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/19/2016 at 17:44

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Have you ever noticed the similarities between Daisy and Sidewalks of New York?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Berang 01/19/2016 at 17:48

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Actually, no. Though I do suddenly have the sneaking suspicion The Street Where You Live from My Fair Lady is similar to something I can’t put my finger on.

Berang > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/19/2016 at 18:08

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I remember the first time I listened to Lumbye’s Steam Engine Gallop and knowing I had heard part of it before somewhere. And it drove me nuts until I figured it out.

(listen at 2.40 if it doesn’t start there)

(listen at 1.26)

I can’t imagine this being a coincidence, but by the time Entry of the Gladiators was written, Lumbye had been dead for decades and his music would’ve been fairly obscure.