Sometimes, the depths of my ignorance surprise me.<\/p>\n
In this instance, the song “Beautiful Dreamer<\/a>” by Stephen Foster<\/a>.<\/p>\n Like, doubtless, a good many people, I knew it from Danny Elfman’s Batman<\/i> score; he used the melody as the Joker’s “love theme” for Vicki Vale.<\/p>\n And I’ve been known to whistle it or hum it in the nearly twenty years since Tim Burton’s Batman<\/i> film hit theaters.<\/p>\n But until today, I had no idea that it was a song with lyrics<\/i>. I thought it was entirely an instrumental. A melody that lovely, it didn’t need<\/i> words.<\/p>\n So, when I found a Beatles recording of “Beautiful Dreamer” that they had recorded for the BBC. And I was expecting<\/i> an instrumental. I certainly wasn’t<\/i> expecting to hear Paul McCartney’s voice.<\/p>\n And I much<\/i> prefer the song as an instrumental. The lyrics simply don’t<\/i> work for me. Even if they were written back in the early 1860s.<\/p>\n The things I don’t<\/i> know; sometimes they shock even me<\/i>… \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sometimes, the depths of my ignorance surprise me. In this instance, the song “Beautiful Dreamer” by Stephen Foster. Like, doubtless, a good many people, I knew it from Danny Elfman’s Batman score; he used the melody as the Joker’s “love theme” for Vicki Vale. And I’ve been known to whistle it or hum it inContinue reading “On “Beautiful Dreamer””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4097],"tags":[89,98],"class_list":["post-2135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beatles","tag-batman","tag-the-beatles","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}