Ohio (1953 song)
"Ohio" is a song from the 1953 Broadway musical Wonderful Town,[1] sung by the protagonists Ruth and Eileen, bemoaning the fact that they had left Ohio for New York City. The lyric is centered around the rhyming phrase "Why, oh, why, oh, why, oh/why did I ever leave Ohio?"
The song features a spoken word section in the middle, where the girls recall all the things they hated about Ohio that prompted them to leave in the first place, that ends with the sung line "Thank heaven we're free!" before going back to the title lyric.
It was written by Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green.[2]
In the original 1953 Broadway production, the song was performed by Rosalind Russell and Edith Adams (as a duet).[3]
Bing Crosby recorded the song on February 9, 1953 with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra.[4]
A noteworthy recording of the song was made by Doris Day as part of her albums, Show Time (1960) and My Heart (2011).
An additional noteworthy release was in November 2010 when it was sung by Jane Lynch as Sue Sylvester and Carol Burnett as her mother Doris on the U.S. television show Glee, which takes place in Lima, Ohio. The original spoken word section is replaced with a new lyric about Sue's parents abandoning her to hunt Nazis.[5][6][7]
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References[]
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ "Wonderful Town – Broadway Show – Musical". IBDb.com. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
- ^ "Wonderful Town – Broadway Musical – Original". IBDb.com. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
- ^ "A Bing Crosby Discography". Bingmagazine.co.uk. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-11-11. Retrieved 2010-11-16.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ Video on YouTube
- ^ [2][dead link]
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