A blast from many pasts

[dj]

Hi, all:


I got an email from an actor who had played a role in a show I wrote many years ago, asking if I still had the music to one of the songs in the show.


Well, thanks to the backwards compatibility of Composer, I did! I created the .not file for this in 2005 (the show debuted in 2006) and it loaded perfectly in 2021! How many programs can say that?


The show is a musical melodrama, two things that are not supposed to be able to go together, but this one did. Called The Lure of the Lights, it's about a young woman lured to the big city, where she falls into the clutches of nefarious men.


The song, like all the numbers in the show, is an extant turn of the 20th century song. I took public domain ragtime, blues and early jazz and created a score to turn the melodrama into a musical.


As the song says, You Can't Get Along (With 'Em Or Without 'Em).


PS: There is a Piano/Vocal part that you can view. I forget to set it as the default view before I uploaded.