[lit-ideas] I didn't want to do it, I didn't want to do it
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 21:10:44 -0400 (EDT)
In a message dated 8/19/2012 6:08:12 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx writes:
People do what they want to do. That's what they do. Yep.
Call me Popperian, but I'm with McEvoy on this one that the above is
unverifiable (or unfalsifiable, as the case may be).
For Grice, 'want' has two implicatures:
"I want it" -- means one thing.
"The floor wants sweeping" -- means another. This is an implicatural
distinction: i.e. pragmatic, not semantic. The ones to blame are the Vikings
--who introduced 'want'. The English were happy using 'will' as in
"I willingly did it."
----
The point that Yost is using concepts in a neo-Kantian way should be
obvious when we see that to utter
"I did what I did not want to do."
is NOT contradictory. And that's not just lyrical (as per below).
Cheers,
Speranza
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You made me love you
I didn't want to do it, I didn't want to do it
You made me love you
and all the time you knew it
I guess you always knew it.
You made me happy sometimes, you made me glad
But there were times, Dear, you made me feel so bad
You made me sigh for, I didn't want to tell you
I didn't want to tell you
I want some love that's true, yes I do, deed I do, you know I do
Give me, give me, give me what I cry for
you know you got the brand of kisses that I'd die for
You know you made me love you
"You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)" is a popular song.
The music was written by James V. Monaco, the lyrics by Joseph McCarthy.
The song was published in 1913. It was introduced in the Broadway revue The
Honeymoon Express.
One of the earliest recordings of the song was by Al Jolson. Jolson
recorded the song on June 4, 1913. It was released on Columbia A-1374. He
performed it on the soundtrack of the 1946 film The Jolson Story and recorded
it
on March 20, 1946. The record was released on Decca 23613.
Roger Edens wrote additional lyrics to the song for Judy Garland. The new
lyrics cast Garland in the role of a teenage fan of Clark Gable. Garland
sang the song to Gable at a birthday party thrown for him by
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. MGM executives were so charmed by her rendition that she
and the song
were added to the film Broadway Melody of 1938. Garland recorded the
"Gable" version on September 24, 1937. It was released on Decca 1463. MGM
released the song as a b-side in 1939, opposite Garland's recording of "Over
the
Rainbow" for The Wizard of Oz.[1]
[edit] Performances
Chelsea Krombach performed the song for her debut album Look for the
Silver Lining.
Aretha Franklin recorded the song for her album "The Electrifying Aretha
Franklin" (1962).
The melody was featured prominently in the score for the 1943 Edward
Dmytryk movie "Tender Comrade" starring Ginger Rogers and Robert Ryan.
The Four Freshmen included it on their 1955 4 Freshmen and 5 Trombones
album.
Doris Day performed the song in the 1955 Ruth Etting biographical film
Love Me or Leave Me.
Screamin Jay Hawkins recorded the song for a single in 1957 "You Made Me
Love You" / "Darling, Please Forgive Me" [OKeh 7084].
Country Music singer Patsy Cline recorded the song and it was featured on
her 1962 album Sentimentally Yours.
George Burns and some of the Muppets performed a humorous version of this
song where Gonzo especially gets a kick out of the line "didn't want to do
it".
This song is featured in the Hoveround commercial being sung by elders.
Harry James performed a well-known version of the song as a trumpet solo,
issued in 1941 as the reverse side of 'A Sinner Kissed An Angel'. One of
the major hits of 1941, it is widely reported as a million-seller.
British comedian Bernard Manning performed the song on side one of his
1975 album 'My Kind of Music'.
Olivia Newton-John sings the song in the film Xanadu, as a vocal on a
record presented as a Glenn Miller band performance. The song is largely
background to Danny and Sonny talking, and does not appear on the film's
soundtrack album, but it does appear as the b-side of her single "Suddenly"
This song was covered by Nate Fishback and the Easy Street Band in Walt
Disney World on their 25th anniversary tour.
An outtake of the The Beatles Anthology showed that it was originally to
be included in their movie "Magical Mystery Tour"
This song was used in the commercials for Dylan Montgomery's "1998 burnin'
Swedish Fish power tour" in Eastern Europe and also played several times
by him and other artists.
Bette Midler, Marc Shaiman, and Bruce Vilanch wrote new lyrics to Judy
Garland's version of the song for Midler's appearance on the penultimate
episode of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on May 21, 1992. Midler
performed the song as "You Made Me Watch You," a tribute to Carson's 30 years
as
host.[2]
Mayim Bialik performed the song on Blossom in the episode "Ruby" (Season
3, Episode 14, aired December 21, 1992).
Billy Crystal sings an altered version of this song on the first episode
of the Tonight Show With Jay Leno.
Cookie Monster performed a slightly re-written version of the song in a
Sesame Street insert, writing a love letter to his favorite cookie.
This song is also mentioned in the book "The five people you meet in
heaven" by Mitch Albom
This song is being played by a band during a dance scene in Disney's 2005
film "The Greatest Game Ever Played".
Kim Poirier sings the song in the movie Foodland as her character Lucy
Eklund.[3]
Rufus Wainwright sings the song on his 2007 album, Rufus Does Judy at
Carnegie Hall.
Harry Nilsson sings the song on his album A Little Touch of Schmilsson in
the Night.
An instrumental version of the song plays as source music from a radio in
the first scene of the 2009 movie "Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky"
Barry Manilow covered the song on his 2010 collection, The Greatest Love
Songs of All Time.
Sherie Rene Scott sings this in her one woman show Everyday Rapture.
This song is sung by Jack Halford and Gerry Standing in New Tricks.
This song is sung by Matt Doyle at the conclusion of the film Private
Romeo (2011).
[edit] References
^ Edwards, Anne (1975). Judy Garland. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 671802283
(paperback edition).
^ Shaiman, Marc. "Someone in a Tree: My View of Johnny Carson's Last
Night." The Film Music Society. January 24, 2005.
^ [1][dead link]
Categories:
Songs with music by James V. Monaco
Songs with lyrics by Joseph McCarthy
1913 songs
Judy Garland songs
Patsy Cline songs
Shirley Bassey songs
Pop standard stubs
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