{"id":241,"date":"2017-08-24T20:12:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T20:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/publicknowledge.sfmoma.org\/hit-parade\/?p=241"},"modified":"2017-08-22T20:14:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T20:14:13","slug":"barbary-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.sfmoma.org\/hit-parade\/barbary-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbary Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cIn the hottest hot place anywhere around, anywhere around<br \/>\nStep up to the wicket,<br \/>\nGet yourself a ticket San Francisco bound! I said Frisco bound!\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\nWith lyrics by Ira Gershwin and music by George Gershwin, \u201cBarbary Coast\u201d (1954) was written for the musical \u201cGirl Crazy,\u201d starring Ethel Merman. The song was written for the character Frisco Kate, \u201ca rough-and-tumble \u2018floozy\u2019 from San Francisco\u2019s Barbary Coast,\u201d played by Merman (Furia, 77).<br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\nAccording to Philip Furia, in Ira Gershwin: The Art of the Lyricist, \u201cthe song was designed for Kate to illustrate her former career as a Barbary Coast chanteuse, and Ira gave Merman a lyric laced with slang to recount the tale of Delilah, a \u2018floozy\u2019 who \u2018never gave a damn\u2019 until the day she fell for a \u2018swell buckaroo whose name was Sam\u2019\u201d (77). For more on how this song represents Gershwin\u2019s sonic innovation, check out Furia\u2019s book.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-242 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/publicknowledge.sfmoma.org\/hit-parade\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/08\/GirlCrazy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.sfmoma.org\/hit-parade\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/08\/GirlCrazy.jpg 533w, https:\/\/publicknowledge.sfmoma.org\/hit-parade\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/08\/GirlCrazy-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Full sheet music courtesy of SFPL Sheet Music Collection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cIn the hottest hot place anywhere around, anywhere around<br \/>\nStep up to the wicket,<br \/>\nGet yourself a ticket San Francisco bound! I said Frisco bound!\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\nWith lyrics by Ira Gershwin and music by George Gershwin, \u201cBarbary Coast\u201d (1954) was written for the musical \u201cGirl Crazy,\u201d starring Ethel Merman. The song was written for the character Frisco Kate, \u201ca rough-and-tumble \u2018floozy\u2019 from San Francisco\u2019s Barbary Coast,\u201d played by Merman (Furia, 77).<br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\nAccording to Philip Furia, in Ira Gershwin: The Art of the Lyricist, \u201cthe song was designed for Kate to illustrate her former career as a Barbary Coast chanteuse, and Ira gave Merman a lyric laced with slang to recount the tale of Delilah, a \u2018floozy\u2019 who \u2018never gave a damn\u2019 until the day she fell for a \u2018swell buckaroo whose name was Sam\u2019\u201d (77). For more on how this song represents Gershwin\u2019s sonic innovation, check out Furia\u2019s book.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-242 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/publicknowledge.sfmoma.org\/hit-parade\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/08\/GirlCrazy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.sfmoma.org\/hit-parade\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/08\/GirlCrazy.jpg 533w, https:\/\/publicknowledge.sfmoma.org\/hit-parade\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/08\/GirlCrazy-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Full sheet music courtesy of SFPL Sheet Music Collection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.sfmoma.org\/hit-parade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.sfmoma.org\/hit-parade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.sfmoma.org\/hit-parade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.sfmoma.org\/hit-parade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.sfmoma.org\/hit-parade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.sfmoma.org\/hit-parade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.sfmoma.org\/hit-parade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.sfmoma.org\/hit-parade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.sfmoma.org\/hit-parade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}