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Songs from the Cybill Show
2003
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Nice Work If You Can Get It has always been one of
my favorite songs written by George Gershwin. I had to fight to
use it as the Cybill Show theme song because my co producers wanted
me to do Peggy Lee's "I'm a Woman" instead.. Toasted
Chickies was the first of numerous bogus radio spots I would
sing on the show. On this one, I got a job imitating a chicken for
a snack food jingle. It didn't go so well. . Funny How Time
Slips Away is from the last episode of the first season,
when my first ex husband Ira wanted to reconcile with me, and my
second ex husband Jeff wanted whoever he could get. Burt Reynolds
and everybody else just wanted a big bar fight. . Granny's
Snack Cakes was another snack food jingle, but this time
I'm an angel on roller skates. Listen and you'll hear the skates
just before I fly into the willing arms of a local union member.
. Secret Love is a great song to frame the montage
of date scenes with my brief and secret fling for two episodes,
played by Chad Everett. It's an old favorite that I've sung for
years. I actually had no trouble getting the producers to put it
in the show, maybe because I wasn't singing on camera. . Thanks
to Ronald Reagan we now know that ketchup is a vegetable, and on
Coulson's Vegetable Soup, I get to play a life size
tuber. It was an eighteen carrot performance.. In That's Life
I dance on a sushi bar and finish a performance I started twenty
some years earlier.. As a scantily clad island babe, my Twin
Coconuts steal the show. I use my chest voice so well..
Maryann and I prove that Girls Just Want To Have Fun
when we venture to Japan and cavort with the repressed wife of a
Japanese CEO and a very large Sumo wrestler who has a crush on me
(not literally). The studio insisted that I sing the exact Japanese
translation provided by the music publisher. I have included that
version here. However, the studio decided not to include my Japanese
singing in the episode because they feared a lawsuit from the publisher.
Why? Judge for yourself.. Maryann gets a whole lot more Respect
when I impersonate her at her high school reunion. . Although I
was flushed with anticipation, my career was going down the pipes
when I took a job as a singing toilet and sang The Potty Song.
But later that same episode, things were looking up as I get to
belt out a rousing high B flat on St. Louis Blues
at a local club. I just sang a few phrases of One Boy
in the third show of the fourth season, but here is the full version
of the song.. Hi De Diddle is a bawdy song from a
dream sequence where time, gender and familial relations are totally
skewed. This acoustic version of Talk Memphis To Me
was intended to go with some wonderful video footage the network
refused to air. Rock A Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody
was to have been my swan song, my farewell to my fans, but it was
cut out of the last episode by the studio. For the details, read
my upcoming book, "Cybill Disobedience" to be published
by Harper Collins late 99. . Nice Work If You Can Get It
was way too expensive to use in the foreign version or syndication
so I came up with Gonna Make It as an alternative.
I have no idea if they are actually using Gonna Make It
in the foreign version, as I've never seen my show outside of the
USA. They tell me the chances of syndicating the show are slim.
Oh well, I guess I won't be able to afford that ranch after all.
Yes folks once again, the Cybill Show theme song, Nice Work
If You Can Get It.
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