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.

[Sherry C]

Hi David,


That's encouraging to know that the backward compatibility worked well from that long ago. I wish some of my other software worked that well


The song was fun, too


ttfn,
Sherry

[Jeffrey610]

Gee dj. . . I didn't know. . .that was wonderful.

You wrote the Lyrics? That was terrific. Don't ever lose that music sheet. Print multiple copies and save on a Flash Drive. I would love to have seen the theatrical use of the song. . .and the play!!
Snappy (and witty) never go out of style. "Neither does truth". . .Wife said!


Jeffrey610

[dj]

Hi, Jeffrey:


I can't claim authorship. It's a 1916 Tin Pan Alley number by Fred Fischer and Grant Clarke. Clarke did the lyrics.


What I did was take a bunch of those old, largely forgotten numbers and worked them into a script that was taken from the archives of Canada's Marks Brothers (from my hometown), known in their day as 'Canada's Kings of Repertoire'. They toured Canada and the northern U.S. for more than 40 years and played to more than 8,000,000 people -- in the days of steam trains and horse-drawn carriages.


The show is called 'The Lure of the Lights' and you can see the script and score from the links on the Marks Brothers Melodrama page at my website playsfromdavidjacklin.ca. Along with about 35 of my works.