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Isn’t It Romantic? 1932
Richard Rodgers (m) Lorenz Hart (w)
From film “Love Me Tonight”
This song had the most innovative sequence ever given to a song in any film. It is first sung by Maurice Chevalier to a customer in his tailor shop who leaves humming it and is heard by a cab driver who hums it so that it is heard by a fare who is a musician and takes down the notes and later on a troop train gives it words that are overheard by the troops who sing it to new lyrics as they march down a country road and are heard by a gypsy violinist who plays it back in the gypsy camp so that it is heard by Jeanette MacDonald who sings it yet again with a third set of lyrics. When sung as a single, the first set of male-chauvinistic lyrics are never used.
Notes by Frank Behrens
