Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man: Difference between revisions

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The song was performed as a song and [[Tap dance|soft shoe dance]] by actress, singer and dancer [[Jessica Lange]] and actress and dancer [[Drew Barrymore]], accompanied on piano by actor, singer and pianist [[Malcolm Gets]], playing the roles of "Big Edie" [[Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale|Edith Bouvier Beale]] and her daughter "Little Edie" [[Edith Bouvier Beale]] and piano accompanist George Gould Strong, in HBO's 2009 dramatization ''[[Grey Gardens (2009 film)|Grey Gardens]]''<ref>{{cite web|title=''Grey Gardens''|website=IMDb.com|url=https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0758751/|access-date=20 May 2021}}</ref> based on the 1975 documentary ''[[Grey Gardens]]''.

Famous composer and "King of Satire" Tom Lehrer usedparodied the first 2two lines of the songs a parodysong in the 1959 song "She's My Girl", with the opening linelines: "Sharks Got togotta Swimswim, and Batsbats Gotgotta tofly; Fly./ I gotta Lovelove Oneone Womanwoman Tilltill I Diedie". YearsIn later1965, heas quotedpart of the openingalbum line''[[That ofWas the RefrainYear inThat theWas|That songWas "Pollution"the withYear thethat words:Was]]'', "Fishlater, Gothe toquoted Swim,those andlines Birdsin Gotthe tosong Fly",Pollution": in"Fish whichgotta Lehrerswim, concludesand thebirds nextgotta linefly, with/ "But they don't last long if they try".

==Partial song lyrics==