Sing for Your Supper

Sing for Your Supper

Sing for Your Supper is an American popular song by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Lorenz Hart. The song was debuted in their 1938 Broadway musical "the Boys from Syracuse", in which it was performed as a trio with Muriel Angelus, Marcy Westcott and Wynn Murray. [LorenzHart.org [http://www.lorenzhart.org/supper.htm] ] The lyrics describe a singer performing to earn his meals: "Sing for your supper, / And you'll get breakfast. / Songbirds always eat / If their song is sweet to hear." The song has been recorded by numerous jazz and pop artists over the years, including Rudy Vallée, Count Basie, Mel Tormé, Helen Humes, the Mamas & the Papas and Cher. [All Music Guide: Song Entry [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=17:1391323] .] Author Ethan Mordden used the song as the title for his 2005 study of the Broadway musical in the 1930s, "Sing for Your Supper: the Broadway Musical in the 1930s."

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* [http://www.lorenzhart.org/supper.htm Lyrics at LorenzHart.org]


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