You're the Top...
Dec. 20th, 2007 09:55 amIt's been taking me between an hour and an hour and a half to go home by bus each evening, because of the snow. Walking would take at least that long, assuming I even could - maybe not without skis or shownshoes.
In any case, I've been listening to my favourite album on my iPod, John Barrowman Swings Cole Porter, and enjoying it thoroughly. And after hearing the Harlan Ellison quote (which I posted two days ago) where he quoted the lyrics, I was reflecting that "You're the Top" has the best lyrics of any song ever1, and I started wondering what a Bendel bonnet was.
So this morning I tried to look it up, and discovered that people have followed this path before. For example, eemadge has a great website that gives links to visual reference for just about all the nouns in the song, though not the Bendel bonnet. And hte visuals for 'sonnet' are, in my opinion... iffy. There is a horse named Bendel bonnet. The real answer appears to be that Bendel was a New York store for women's apparel, presumably of good quality - or at least, Cole Porter thought so. Perhaps his wife shopped there.
"Mazy lout" now has me perplexed. My brain always interpreted that as "lazy lout". So what is it?
I think my favourite couplet (though it's hard to decide) is:
You're the nimble tread of the feet of Fred AstaireIf you're interested, here are the lyrics of "You're the Top", taken from Peaches lyrics website2:( At words poetic I'm so pathetic... )
You're an O'Neill drama, you're Whistler's mama, you're Camembert.
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1 Unless I think of something better. But so far, I can't.
2 I confess, I fixed a few typos in it.
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