Uploaded by dominanefret on Sep 5, 2010
This is the song "Sing Me a Song With Social Significance", sung by Rose Marie Jun, from the 1962 revival cast of Pins and Needles.
Pins and Needles is a Broadway revue, written originally in 1937s. The revue was written, sponsored, and performed by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, who held their union meetings at the Princess theater in New York City.
The cast members all had full time factory jobs in the garment industry, and thus could only rehearse during the night and on the weekends.
Pins and Needles used its voice to air strong pro-Union opinions, incorporating current events from its time. The show features light hearted and clever use of satire and spoof to poke fun of such things fascist dictators in Europe and snooty American bigots.
The American theatre historian and writer John Kenrick said of the show Pins and Needles "is the only hit ever produced by a labor union, and the only time when a group of unknown non-professionals brought a successful musical to Broadway."
I discovered this song while flipping through radio stations during a long road trip. An adorable man was hosting a show playing tunes from old revues and musicals that no one has ever heard of, or have been forgotten about, and enthusiastically explaining their history. He played this song, as well as "Doing The Reactionary" and "One Big Union For Two". I immediately fell in love and searched for them as soon as I got to my destination. Needing to share this song with my community, I created this video for all of you.
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Thanks so much for posting this famous and important song. I'd heard the title quoted all my life but never, till Youtube, heard the song. If you read or write aesthetics and art history, this song is always used to sum up a certain point of view. The song is as timeless as the oh so political young lady, with her educated syncopated diction, and the poor soul who has been fruitlessly wooing her with romantic "pap."
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@JonathonLuiten "Spelled" is not spelled "spelt."
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That's so amazing...
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"Want" is not spelt "wan't" (1:53)
JonathonLuiten 1 year ago
@JonathonLuiten
You found the single spelling error (typo) in the entire video and introduction! Congratulations!
As such an intelligent person, I am sure that you must have noticed that the word "want" is used at other times in the video, spelled correctly. Thus, it appears it would be rather obvious, especially to such an intelligent person as yourself, that this instance was in fact a typo, instead of demonstrating an inability to spell.
I'm glad I could help provide you with an ego boost!
dominanefret 10 months ago 5