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14 Apr 05 - 01:55 PM (#1461266) Subject: Tough Rhymes: Coolidge, Orange, etc. From: Peter T. Saw "Words and Music" last night, a laughable biopic of Rodgers and Hart that came out in the late 1940's (among the first glimpses of future stars like Janet Leigh, Cyd Charisse, Ann Southern, etc.), with Mickey Rooney as the deplorable Larry Hart. One of the leitmotifs of the film was Hart's propensity for making up rhymes for tough words. Thought it would make a good thread. "Orange" supposedly has no rhymes in English. Hart rhymes "Calvin Coolidge" with "eulogy" (coolidge - ey). Other tough nuts to crack are double and triple syllable rhymes -- ("Let's take a kayak to Quinsey or Nyack" is a lovely double that springs to mind). yours, Peter T. |
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14 Apr 05 - 02:13 PM (#1461282) Subject: RE: Tough Rhymes: Coolidge, Orange, etc. From: Q (Frank Staplin) Coolidge- porridge orange- lozenge is close. |
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14 Apr 05 - 02:18 PM (#1461286) Subject: RE: Tough Rhymes: Coolidge, Orange, etc. From: Leadfingers What about Banjo - It IS a Music site !!! Or Silver ??? |
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14 Apr 05 - 02:22 PM (#1461291) Subject: RE: Tough Rhymes: Coolidge, Orange, etc. From: Scotus Funny you should bring this up Peter, but my wife and I moved to Florida recently and discovered it's full of songwriters. Not to be outdone we sat down and wrote this just this past week. There's a small 'in-joke' about a well known songwriting Floridian! The Orange Song When we moved to Florida, we found everyone writing songs We wanted to fit in, to stake our claim, so we thought we'd join the throng. We sat down at the piano, we racked our brains for rhyme. . . And we found it couldn't happen. Orange blocked us every time! There ain't no rhyme for orange, no matter how you forage. You can twist, you can turn, you can fume, you can grind But no matter how you churn, you're still gonna find There's just no rhyme for orange. Our new friends kept asking us, "Written that great song yet?" We said, "It's just so hard to choose! There's so much scope for it! You got your Suwannee River, those cute tree frogs, and let's not forget the gators!" But it'd be a whole lot simpler if you folk were growing taters. There ain't no rhyme for orange, we've looked behind every door hinge You can fuss, you can fret, you can moan, you can shout But no matter how you slice it, you'll be going without A real good rhyme for orange So we thought of other Florida words, to make our job a breeze Like Ibix, manatee, Spanish moss, swinging from the trees Flamingo! Much too difficult! Malaluca? Grant wrote that best. So here we sit stewing in our own juice trying to process with some zest. Spoken: We're gonna call our agent. Orange ya gonna try again? There ain't no rhyme for orange, we put the guitar in storage Cause we tried and we cried and we pretty near died Trying to find that word that's never yet been heard, elusive as a bird, we were so assured, until it finally dawned on us: There ain't no rhyme for orange! What do you think? Jack beck |
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14 Apr 05 - 02:25 PM (#1461296) Subject: RE: Tough Rhymes: Coolidge, Orange, etc. From: Kevin Sheils I remember my brother telling me that nothing rhymes with Orange. I replied "No it doesn't!" |
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14 Apr 05 - 03:16 PM (#1461342) Subject: RE: Tough Rhymes: Coolidge, Orange, etc. From: michaelr Orange - door hinge |
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14 Apr 05 - 03:57 PM (#1461387) Subject: RE: Tough Rhymes: Coolidge, Orange, etc. From: Vixen Well, Reynaud thought he'd stump me in Jenny Jenkins... No, I won't wear orange it's a color I deplore an' just buy me a folly rolly dilly dally seek-a-double use-a-cozzy rolllllllllll Don't know if that would count... A memorable quote from a book I read once: To find a rhyme for silver requires only will, ver- bosity, and time. Just my $0.02, fwiw. V |
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14 Apr 05 - 04:53 PM (#1461427) Subject: RE: Tough Rhymes: Coolidge, Orange, etc. From: Amos A fat Bishop, garbed in orange THought to gather and to store ang- Elic blessings in a golden jar. But a monk -- with bowl of silver Said, In spite of all your skilll, ver- Idical reports will be a bar!" A |
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14 Apr 05 - 05:16 PM (#1461464) Subject: RE: Tough Rhymes: Coolidge, Orange, etc. From: Peter T. Very impressive (and suggessive!). yours, Peter T. |
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14 Apr 05 - 05:20 PM (#1461467) Subject: RE: Tough Rhymes: Coolidge, Orange, etc. From: Peter T. With the thoughts I'd be thinkin', I could be another Lincoln.... "But I could show my prowess, Be a lion, not a mowess, If I only had the nerve" (brilliant!!!!) yours, Peter T. |
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14 Apr 05 - 11:21 PM (#1461778) Subject: RE: Tough Rhymes: Coolidge, Orange, etc. From: katlaughing LOL...well done, all! Fliver/flivver would be a close one for silver, no? kat |
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15 Apr 05 - 12:28 AM (#1461796) Subject: RE: Tough Rhymes: Coolidge, Orange, etc. From: ElwynnMaxon Dave Carter rhymed "Agent orange" with "door in just about the time" in the song Mary Where She Sleeps. E.M. |
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21 Apr 05 - 08:36 AM (#1466930) Subject: RE: Tough Rhymes: Coolidge, Orange, etc. From: Snuffy Blorenge |
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21 Apr 05 - 09:11 AM (#1466962) Subject: RE: Tough Rhymes: Coolidge, Orange, etc. From: pavane Purple is another difficult one. Tom Lehrer liked the challenge, rhyming Waltz with Chocolate Malts, and tragic with ajec (-tive) |
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21 Sep 07 - 05:30 PM (#2154549) Subject: RE: Tough Rhymes: Coolidge, Orange, etc. From: katlaughing This website claims rhyming words for both orange and purple. |
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21 Sep 07 - 06:16 PM (#2154574) Subject: RE: Tough Rhymes: Coolidge, Orange, etc. From: Joybell Roger Miller - in "Dang Me" used: Roses are red, violets are purple Sugar is sweet, so is maple syurple. Cheers, Joy |