Twang!!
Twang!! is a musical with music and lyrics written by Lionel Bart and a book by Bart and Harvey Orkin, with assistance from Burt Shevelove. The piece was a spoof of the character and legend of the outlaw Robin Hood. It was a disastrous box-office failure and cost Bart his personal fortune.
After a preview in Manchester, Twang opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London's West End on 20 December 1965 and closed on 29 January 1966 after just 43 performances, receiving scathing reviews and playing to mostly empty houses. Bart produced it with Bernard Delfont and John Bryan, and Joan Littlewood directed but quit before it opened. She was replaced by Shevelove and Bart.Twang!! is remembered as "the most expensive flop" in West End history up to that time.
Synopsis
Robin Hood and his Merry Men attempt to break into Nottingham Castle, in a variety of preposterous disguises, in order to prevent a marriage between the nymphomaniac "court tart" Delphina and the hairy Scots laird Roger the Ugly, arranged for the purpose of securing the loan of Scottish troops for bad Prince John.
Twang
Twang is an old onomatopoeia originally used to describe the sound of a vibrating bow string after the arrow is released. By extension it applies to the similar vibration produced when the string of a musical instrument is plucked, and similar sounds. The term came to be applied to a nasal vocal resonation, and was historically used to describe "a disagreeable resonance". Later, however, the term came to be more broadly associated with regional dialects, to the extent that in some locations, "a twang is a desirable commodity".
Specific uses of the term include:
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Twang (album)
Twang is the twenty-sixth studio album by American country music artist George Strait. It was released on August 11, 2009, via MCA Nashville, the same label to which Strait has been signed since 1981. It is produced by Tony Brown. The lead-off single "Living for the Night", which Strait wrote with his son Bubba and songwriter Dean Dillon, was released in May 2009. As of the chart dated January 8, 2011, the album has sold 662,023 copies in the US.
Content
The album includes three songs that Strait co-wrote with his son, George "Bubba" Strait, Jr., who is also the sole writer of the track "Arkansas Dave." Among these three songs is the lead-off single "Living for the Night", which was also co-written by Dean Dillon, who has co-written several of Strait's previous singles. This album is also the second of his solo career to contain a song that he co-wrote, with 1982's Strait from the Heart being the first. The album's final track, "El Rey", is a cover version of a Spanish-language song written and originally recorded by Mexican songwriter José Alfredo Jiménez. "Twang" was released on October 13, 2009 as the second single, followed by "I Gotta Get to You" in February 2010 and "The Breath You Take" in June.
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ALBUMS
- Välkommen hit released: 1992
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- Manchester: So Much to Answer For released: 1990
Manchester: So Much to Answer For
Released 1990- Eat Yourself Fitter
- What Do I Get
- Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Second Skin
- Dark Times
- The House That Faded Out
- Working and Shopping
- Big Dry Out
- I Love You Mr. Disposable Razors
- All the Irish Must Go to Heaven
- Handsome Devil
- Mad Cyril
- Directing Traffic
- Consider
- Swerve
- Do the Du
- Rockin' Ricki
- Three the Hard Way
- Rawside
- Big (instrumental)
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Live the Life
by: TwangI was feeling inspired now I'm just feeling tired
Of your winging your moaning just leave me alone
I except what your saying but the tunes that you're playing
They do nothing for me so just let it be
Live the life you love and your life will love you
You're holding on to things that were never really there
You're a fake and you know it one mistake and you'll blow it
To a place far away, it's more than a payday
So don't get the fear and ignore all the sneers
You just get one life you don't get it twice
Live the life you love and your life will love you
You're holding on to things that were never really there
Live the life you love and your life will love you
You're talking down to me I well above you
Live the life you love and your life will love you
You're holding on to things that were never really there
Well there are trays full of tryers
And layers of liars
And Acers of acts are no good
Live the life you love and your life will love you
You're holding on to things that were never really there
Live the life you love and your life will love you
You're talking down to me I well above you
Live the life you love and your life will love you
You're holding on to things that were never really there
So live the life you love.
Well there are trays full of tryers
And layers of liars
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The Twang announced 2 new events
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Concert announcement: Darius Rucker bringing the twang to Rogers Place Oct. 17
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