I'm Gonna Marry Diana
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 at 02:39AM © Bill Burnett
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This is a tune I wrote for the marriage of my friend Doug Day and his lovely bride Diana. It's been one of my major crowd pleasers ever since and I'm proud of it as a catchy tune and also a clever lyric. I think it emulates some of the word play of the great Roger Miller--a crafty and inspired hipster singer-songwriter who made very smart music, nestled safely into the country genre. Lines like Trying to mock the way they talk, fun but all in vain/Gapin' at the dapper men in derby hats and canes rival Sondheim's Phone'll jingle door'll knock from West Side Story. And I like to think that my I went and bought a ring/Now my heart is fluttering is in that same tradition. In the future I'll do a SongTalk piece on Roger Miller and make the case that he is one of our greatest singer songwriters. For now I just urge you to check him out on your own.
By the way, that's the great Suzy Williams singing with me in the background.
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