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cimoreneYes, for Yuletide I was rather ironically assigned to write fanfiction for my oldest OTP3, the one canon I essentially know by heart (I'm very glad I was, though)!
You're the Cream in My Coffee is ≈8400 words (or you can see it on the Yuletide site).![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mecurtin graciously provided a last-minute pinch-hit beta for which she has earned lots of undying gratitude, since she saved my sanity when I was panicking and enabled me to post on time.
Any Singin' in the Rain story must be a musical, of course, and having used up all the excess music from the soundtrack the last time I wrote it, I went to research period music. That research helped shape the course of the story (and provided the title!) and I got quite caught up in it. Which brings me to the real point of this post. I've been dying to share my awesome 20s music for a month! And therefore I present:
My most exciting discovery was Helen Kane, who is the original Boop-Boop-a-Doop girl! So called because she coined the phrase in her first hit, which catapulted her to megastardom pretty much immediately, and her signature 'boop-a-doop' style scat is audible in all the songs of hers in those files (which is... quite a few!). Betty Boop was an utterly shameless ripoff of her, with the dude who invented it hiring some other chick to imitate her voice for the cartoon. She sued, but the case didn't make it before a jury because a judge threw it out after the defense dug up an essentially completely unknown blues singer who had also, while singing scat, "booped" (and since she didn't invent it, the imitation of her voice, verbal tics, and even appearance apparently wasn't a ripoff). Methinks (said Wax) that someone paid off the judge. Whatever, I gather (thanx Wiki ♥) that she lived a long and happy life as a restauranteur after retiring from showbiz, so that's okay.
ETA!
Cream in My Coffee Soundtrack:
Gene Kelly - Singin in the Rain
Irving Aaronson's Crusaders - Don't Wake Me Up (Let Me Dream)
Spike Jones - The Charleston
Helen Kane - I'd Do Anything for You
Sarita Montiel - Contigo
Billie Holiday - Pennies from Heaven
The Bohemian Band and Billy Cotton - Sonny Boy
Charles Kaley - Should I?
Julio Daviel Big Band - Do You Only Wanna Dance? (instrumental)
Sharon, Lois & Bram - The Cubanola Glide
Bing Crosby - Temptation
Gene Kelly - Singin in the Rain (Mint Royale remix)
Ben Selvin & His Orchestra - I Wonder Where My Baby is Tonight
Ted Weems & His Orchestra with Parker Gibbs - You're the Cream in My Coffee
Charles Salter - Sweet Georgia Brown
Leon Redbone - Shine On Harvest Moon
Helen Kane - I Wanna Be Bad
King Solomon and His Miners with "Scrappy" Lambert - You're the Cream in My Coffee
Other songs of the roaring 20s in no particular order:
Ben Selvin - Am I Blue?
Ben Selvin & His Orchestra - Ooh, Maybe It's You
Hal Swain - The Crowning of the Cotton Queen
Helen Kane - I Wanna Be Loved By You
Helen Kane - That's Why I'm Happy
Helen Kane - He's So Unusual
Helen Kane - Button Up Your Overcoat
Helen Kane - That's My Weakness Now
Irving Kaufman and Ben Selvin's Orchestra - Rosy Cheeks
Ella Fitzgerald - Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)
Spike Jones - Laura
Isham Jones & His Orchestra - Swingin' Down the Lane
Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - Pal of My Cradle Days
Whispering Jack Smith - Me and My Shadow
Disney - The Monkey's Uncle (not actually the 20s)
The Hush Sound - That's Okay (not actually the 20s)
You're the Cream in My Coffee is ≈8400 words (or you can see it on the Yuletide site).
mecurtin graciously provided a last-minute pinch-hit beta for which she has earned lots of undying gratitude, since she saved my sanity when I was panicking and enabled me to post on time.Any Singin' in the Rain story must be a musical, of course, and having used up all the excess music from the soundtrack the last time I wrote it, I went to research period music. That research helped shape the course of the story (and provided the title!) and I got quite caught up in it. Which brings me to the real point of this post. I've been dying to share my awesome 20s music for a month! And therefore I present:
- The soundtrack playlist I made on YouTube to provide an audio reference for the numerous songs quoted or name-checked in the story is reproduced with this downloadable rar file: You're the Cream in My Coffee [rar, password "timothy"] (In a few cases, the download is a different version of the song; and there are just a couple of extras that I couldn't bring myself to take off the soundtrack, though I ended up not mentioning them in the text).
- But there were plenty of songs I liked which didn't make the story, so here's a bonus: The Roaring 20s! [rar, password timothy] Also a couple of er, surprises that aren't period-accurate but simply couldn't be excluded from my extended writing playlist.
My most exciting discovery was Helen Kane, who is the original Boop-Boop-a-Doop girl! So called because she coined the phrase in her first hit, which catapulted her to megastardom pretty much immediately, and her signature 'boop-a-doop' style scat is audible in all the songs of hers in those files (which is... quite a few!). Betty Boop was an utterly shameless ripoff of her, with the dude who invented it hiring some other chick to imitate her voice for the cartoon. She sued, but the case didn't make it before a jury because a judge threw it out after the defense dug up an essentially completely unknown blues singer who had also, while singing scat, "booped" (and since she didn't invent it, the imitation of her voice, verbal tics, and even appearance apparently wasn't a ripoff). Methinks (said Wax) that someone paid off the judge. Whatever, I gather (thanx Wiki ♥) that she lived a long and happy life as a restauranteur after retiring from showbiz, so that's okay.
ETA!
Cream in My Coffee Soundtrack:
Gene Kelly - Singin in the Rain
Irving Aaronson's Crusaders - Don't Wake Me Up (Let Me Dream)
Spike Jones - The Charleston
Helen Kane - I'd Do Anything for You
Sarita Montiel - Contigo
Billie Holiday - Pennies from Heaven
The Bohemian Band and Billy Cotton - Sonny Boy
Charles Kaley - Should I?
Julio Daviel Big Band - Do You Only Wanna Dance? (instrumental)
Sharon, Lois & Bram - The Cubanola Glide
Bing Crosby - Temptation
Gene Kelly - Singin in the Rain (Mint Royale remix)
Ben Selvin & His Orchestra - I Wonder Where My Baby is Tonight
Ted Weems & His Orchestra with Parker Gibbs - You're the Cream in My Coffee
Charles Salter - Sweet Georgia Brown
Leon Redbone - Shine On Harvest Moon
Helen Kane - I Wanna Be Bad
King Solomon and His Miners with "Scrappy" Lambert - You're the Cream in My Coffee
Other songs of the roaring 20s in no particular order:
Ben Selvin - Am I Blue?
Ben Selvin & His Orchestra - Ooh, Maybe It's You
Hal Swain - The Crowning of the Cotton Queen
Helen Kane - I Wanna Be Loved By You
Helen Kane - That's Why I'm Happy
Helen Kane - He's So Unusual
Helen Kane - Button Up Your Overcoat
Helen Kane - That's My Weakness Now
Irving Kaufman and Ben Selvin's Orchestra - Rosy Cheeks
Ella Fitzgerald - Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)
Spike Jones - Laura
Isham Jones & His Orchestra - Swingin' Down the Lane
Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - Pal of My Cradle Days
Whispering Jack Smith - Me and My Shadow
Disney - The Monkey's Uncle (not actually the 20s)
The Hush Sound - That's Okay (not actually the 20s)
