It took a lot of thinking to come up with the best way to introduce the story’s Evil Mastermind. Since her secret hideout is in an old abandoned plantation, I was going to have her dressed like Scarlett O’Hara, but then idea struck me of giving her a splashy production number based on the big show-stopper from the musical “Mame”. Because, well, everybody likes a big production number. But I couldn’t think of a way to make it work.
Then I hit on the idea of basing the scene on “Harrigan”, an old George M. Cohan melody from 19-ought-8. Because putting filk lyrics to songs no one has heard of is how I roll.
I first heard “Harrigan” as a kid in an episode of “Gilligan’s Island”. Here is the song performed by the immortal James Cagney in the musical bio-pic, “Yankee Doodle Dandy”
this is off topic a man just posted, very seriously mind you, that he didn’t know that the US traded goods with Britain in the 19th century and I wanted to pound my head against something.
Looks like someone’s a little salty about Thomas Edison being forced out as the head of General Electric and the world switching from DC to AC (though that was mainly due to George Westinghouse.) I’m guessing there’s a plot to take over electricity production and distribution.
Yes, it is indeed someone with a grudge.