Where did the song “Lady is a Tramp” from?
The Man writes: “Lady Is a Tramp” is from a musical called Babes In Arms (not Babes in Toyland). I don’t recommend seeing it. It was a mild success when it first hit Broadway in the first half of this century, but that was mostly due to the fame of it’s creators. The libretto [read: book, script, the non-musical portion of a musical stage show] was SO bad that when one of the pair of creators died, the other immediately rewrote the libretto and put in his will that the original must NEVER be performed. At the time, librettos were only to give some kind of reason to sing on stage, and this was a bad one. The rewrite isn’t much better though, because it kept the same songs, just even more out of context, a sacrifice to get a plot. You might want to get a CD of the music, if you like cheezy musicals, or, just go to a good library and get the lyrics. Sam Meyer notes: I’ve figured out what the sample in the middle, saying “Tramp” is. It’s from an Otis Redding and Carla Thomas song called, s
