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Jewish World Review Dec. 13, 2011 / 17 Kislev, 5772 American Culture Rides High By Paul Johnson http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | I laugh when people talk about "the decline of America." Culturally, America's grip on the world--comparable to those of ancient Greece and Rome--is tightening, as hundreds of millions of Chinese struggle to learn English and the number who speak it in India increases rapidly. It's fascinating to think that the words most used in all the world's spoken languages are "okay" and "Coke." I was reminded of the power of American culture recently when recording the BBC program Desert Island Discs, in which the guest picks the eight recordings he'd like to have if marooned. Of course, I picked one or two classics, such as Mozart's "Ave Verum Corpus." Mozart composed this 46-bar miniature masterpiece in June 1791, just six months before he died. It was written to celebrate the great Catholic Feast of Transubstantiation of Corpus Christi. I used to sing it when in the choir at Stonyhurst, my Jesuit boarding school. Immediately after it was sung the school cadet force, which I commanded in my last year, performed a Sovereign's Escort. In full dress uniform, with fixed bayonets, the force presented arms and gave the royal salute at the moment of consecration. I also included Tchaikovsky's agonizing song "None but the Lonely Heart," which my mother used to sing. Tchaikovsky wrote this not long before he allegedly was forced to commit suicide by a court of honor for his homosexuality. This was just after the first performance of his "Symphony No. 6," also known as the "Pathétique." What tragedies the history of music holds! Most of my choices, however, were American in origin, such as Shirley Temple's rendition of "Animal Crackers in My Soup," which she sang in the 1935 movie Curly Top, when she and I were both 6 or 7 years old. I was allowed to watch her because my mother said she had "good manners to copy." I also chose Patsy Cline's recording of "Crazy," which in my opinion is the best single ever made. It's a combination of a brilliant song, performed by an entertainer at the top of her form and recorded by a sound engineer in a miracle of technical expertise. Only American culture could have produced it, and I'm not surprised it was a favorite of Ronald Reagan's. Another choice was Leslie Hutchinson, known as Hutch, singing "These Foolish Things." Now, this is an interesting case of the migration of culture. Hutch was a West Indian brought up in the British tradition of speech, and the lyrics of this superb song were written by Eric Maschwitz, who was born in Birmingham, England and was the husband of the magical English comedienne Hermione Gingold. Yet the spirit of Maschwitz's lyrics is permeated by American images and emotional references: "A tinkling piano in the next apartment" is one of the foolish things that "remind me of you." The British term for apartment is "flat." "The park at evening when the bell has sounded" means little to a Londoner, and in place of "long excited cables" we would say "telegrams." My final choice was "Look for the Silver Lining," written by Jerome Kern and Buddy DeSylva, which Judy Garland sang so memorably in the movie Till the Clouds Roll By. It was one of Churchill's favorites, and the lyrics are so good they could have been written by Byron. I once did an item on the BBC breakfast program Today about an old habit politicians had--alas, now lapsed--of holding sing-alongs together and gave this ditty as an example, offering to sing it. The producers tried to dissuade me, but finally the host said, "Oh, well, if he really wants to sing it, let him!" So I did--the only time I've sung on the air. I really like the songs whose lyrics gently reflect the thoughts and emotions of the age. Now, thanks to the ditherings of our leaders, we're in the worst economic depression since the 1930s. That terrible time produced some of the best songs ever written: Yip Harburg and Jay Gorney's "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?," Ted Koehler and Harold Arlen's "Stormy Weather" and Irving Berlin's "Let's Face the Music and Dance." Every weekday JewishWorldReview.com publishes what many in the media and Washington consider "must-reading". Sign up for the daily JWR update. It's free. Just click here. BUY THE BOOK Click HERE to purchase it at a discount. (Sales help fund JWR.). Eminent British historian and author Paul Johnson's latest book is "American Presidents Eminent Lives Boxed Set: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ulysses S. Grant". Comment by clicking here. Previously: 10/20/11: Who Can Lead Us To Safety? 08/23/11: Wanted: Global Role Models 07/05/11: Debt: A Moral Issue 06/08/11: The Moral Logic of Intervention 03/10/11: China's Secret Weakness: Is history repeating itself? 02/10/11: Assessing America's Foes 11/29/10: Wanted: Someone to Trust 10/19/10: Are Universities Worth It? 06/01/10: The English Language and Freedom 04/20/10: Listening and Telling the Truth 02/28/10: There Is No Keynesian Miracle 10/20/09: A Job Waiting for a Woman? 07/21/09: Obama Has to Be World Sheriff 03/24/09: Short works of genius that cheer up the writing profession 02/11/09: What would Darwin do? 01/27/09: Are you sophisticated? Here's how to find out 01/06/09: What did they talk about in the Ice Age? The weather, of course 09/09/08: Time, and our appalling ignorance of it 08/19/08: Eye-stopping glimpses of an exotic and forbidden world 06/30/08: How to fill a lecture hall, and how to empty it 06/23/08: Americans should count their blessings 05/20/08: Pajamas for Presidents 05/13/08: Literary woodlice boring needless holes in biographical bedposts 04/01/08: When markets come crashing down, send for the man with the big red nose 04/01/08: Quality for dinner. Pass the Fairy Liquid, Old Boy 03/25/08: In search of an American President with brains and guts 03/18/08: Technological warfare against mice won't work. Try cats 03/11/08: What is a genius? We use the word frequently but surely, to guard its meaning, we should bestow it seldom 03/03/08: Fiction as a crutch to get one through life 02/26/08: Impatience + Greed = Trouble 02/13/08: Shakespeare, Neo-Platonism and Princess Diana 02/07/08: Where Industry Has Failed Us 12/19/07: People who put their trust in human power delude themselves 12/12/07: What is aggression? 12/04/07: Pursuing success is not enough 11/07/07: Are famous writers accident-prone? 10/31/07: Courage needed to disarm Iran 09/20/07: Who Will Say ‘I Promise to Lay Off’? 07/24/07: Greed is safer than power-seeking 04/02/07: Benefactors must be hardheaded 03/07/07: American idealism and realpolitik 11/28/06: Space: Our ticket to survival 10/24/06: Envy is bad economics 10/11/06: Better to Borrow or Lend? Rethinking conventional wisdom 08/22/06: Don't practice legal terrorism 08/08/06: A summer rhapsody for a pedal-bike 08/03/06: Why is there no workable philosophy of music? 07/11/06: Historically speaking, energy crisis is America's opportunity 07/06/06: The misleading dimensions of persons and lives 06/06/06: First editions are not gold 05/23/06: A downright ugly man need never despair of attracting women, even pretty ones 04/25/06: Was Washington right about political parties? 04/12/06: Let's Have More Babies! 04/05/06: For the love of trains 03/29/06: Lincoln and the Compensation Culture 03/22/06: Bottle-beauties and the globalised blond beast 03/15/06: Europe's utopian hangover 03/08/06: Kindly write on only one side of the paper 02/28/06: Creators versus critics 02/21/06: The Rhino Principle © 2009, Paul Johnson

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