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One of the board members goes on a bizarre tangent about a poem which includes the line "The heavenly blisses of his kisses, fill me with ecstasy," The "poem"
by qohen 5y ago
One of the board members goes on a bizarre tangent about a poem which includes the line "The heavenly blisses of his kisses, fill me with ecstasy,"
The "poem" is actually the lyric to the 1921 song, "I'm Just Wild About Harry", for a Broadway musical, "Shuffle Along"; it was the most popular song in the show. It was later sung in a movie by Judy Garland and and was covered by other artists such as Peggy Lee. It was also used as a campaign song by Harry S. Truman in his run for president.
The song has a Wikipedia page [0] as does the show "Shuffle Along" from which it came [1], which was the first Black Broadway musical and which launched the careers of notables such as Josephine Baker and Paul Robeson and which was "credited with inspiring the Harlem Renaissance" [1].
P.S. The original (it's a comic duet in the show) [2]
Judy Garland's version [3]
A new rendition was used in 2020 as the theme for a TV rom-com [4]
And there are other versions on YouTube.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Just_Wild_About_Harry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Just_Wild_About_Harry
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuffle_Along https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuffle_Along
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IlwAuSEunM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IlwAuSEunM
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDu-qmYtEdU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDu-qmYtEdU
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in-_tVp33_4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in-_tVp33_4