Eileen; age 4. Brooklyn, New York. Photo by Bernard Harkavy, Eileen’s Dad.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor, Blogfinger.net.
I grew up in a household filled with music, especially Broadway show tunes. Since Broadway shows often were about stories, I listened carefully to lyrics.
When I was perhaps in 4th grade, I was friends with a little girl who lived up the block from my grandparents in Bayonne, NJ. I don’t recall her name, but when I listened carefully to the lyrics of this song from Annie Get Your Gun, I actually wondered if I would one day get married, and who would that girl be. And might it be that little girl from up the street?
I didn’t understand some of the lyrics, especially about “purring like a kitten.”
I thought that perhaps there was some girl out there whom I could really like a lot.
That song had always made me wonder.
Much later I met Eileen on a blind date. And then I knew…..
From Annie Get Your Gun: “The Girl That I Marry” Howard Keel singer; Irving Berlin composer.