What Is Love? 6—Broadway Diamond

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I talk to the trees
But they don’t listen to me
I talk to the stars
But they never hear me

The breeze hasn’t time
To stop and hear what I say
I talk to them all
In vain

I tell you my dreams
And while you’re listening to me
I suddenly see them
Come true



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That is a very tiny part—just the good part—of the Broadway song, “I Talk To The Trees,” from the 1951 Lerner and Loewe musical “Paint Your Wagon.”

I’ve cut away the Broadway stuff.

If you play only this bit, and arrange it carefully, it is something like a very cool jazz song about love.

I may do that someday in a future post. (I can play it. I just want to get better at it before posting a quasi una fantasia version.)

But I wanted to get this post up first just to get the theme started.

It may not seem like it and it may take a long time for me to get back to it, but there is a lot of Goblin Universe stuff starting out in this post. And this post will end with some silly stuff so that’s something like my favorite combination.

Here is a rough timeline of some background info that will almost certainly pop up in future posts someday:

1951

“Paint Your Wagon” opens on Broadway

1964—1968

Clint Eastwood establishes himself as an action star in the famous Man with No Name Sergio Leone westerns, and American films like “Coogan's Bluff” and others

1968

Steve McQueen becomes a superstar in the wildly popular film “Bullitt”

1969

Clint Eastwood sings “I Talk To The Trees” in the film version of “Paint Your Wagon” (see below)

1970-1972

Clint Eastwood becomes a superstar with such hits as “Play Misty For Me” and “Dirty Harry” and others

1973

Clint Eastwood directs “Breezy”

1981

Philip K. Dick publishes “Valis”

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And here is the uncut, full-Broadway version of Clint Eastwood singing “I Talk To The Trees:”

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What Is Love? 4—Forbidden Love


What Is Love? 3—Gorilla My Dreams


What Is Love? 2—Ayn Rand


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