Polecats
Posted on | December 9, 2008 |
Hey there.
I just finished editing a new video: Rose Cousins, Jennifer Kimball, Anne Heaton and I singing “lonesome polecat”, which is one of my favorite songs of all time. Here is the video:
In all the time I’ve known this song (from when I was a wee little girl), I did not know what a polecat was. I guess I always thought a Polecat was a kind of really street-wise cat. Oh my gosh it’s a weasel. Read the Wikipedia Entry on Polecats if you don’t believe me.
Here is a gorgeous picture of a polecat (I used this picture to make my polecat puppet):
So it’s originally in the musical “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” which I watched loads when I was young (I never would be saying “loads” if it weren’t for H.Potter). Anyway, the scene where “Lonesome Polecat” is sung used to send my mother and me into ecstasies. We just shoved the popcorn into our mouths and sighed for those axe-swinging, jazz-ballet dancing brothers. Here’s the original, courtesy of YouTube:
Also, a few years back, a boyfriend of mine put the Bobby Darin/Johnny Mathis version on a mixtape for me. It’s totally great, makes you want to get down on the carpeted floor and do a Bob Fosse Dance number. But I missed the melancholy melody on the “ooh” part…
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December 16th, 2008 @ 1:47 pm
Woah! I’d never heard this song…but after hearing this lovely rendition, it’s well on the way to becoming one of my favorite songs of all time, too. Thanks, for this and the others — keep up the wonderful videowork!
December 27th, 2008 @ 8:34 am
Johnny Mercer, not Johnny Mathis!!! Mercer was the one who actually wrote the song…
January 2nd, 2009 @ 10:05 am
Can’t make no vows to a herd of cows, can’t shoot no breeze with a bunch of trees. (I would actually argue that you _could_ do the latter, but that’s beside the point.) I am going to go dig out this movie again now! Maybe I will also resurrect the Harvey Girls starring Judy Garland - that was my popcorn-shoving movie as a kid…
xoxo