So Many Things To Remember

[Terry]

There are precious few examples of Welles singing (Three Cases of Murder, Hello Americans and Almanac come to mind,) and I never even heard of this appearance before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLMPqawVxpA

[Roger Ryan]

Wow... that was really unexpected. Very similar to the kind of music hall number that Monty Python would start exploiting seven or eight years later with decidedly bawdier, but funnier, lyrics. Assuming the entire track is pre-recorded, Welles lip-synchs this quite effectively.

[NoFake]

And of course, as he got older, he left the singing to others; but he was still able to "put over" a song, the "so many things to remember" now nostalgic remembrance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDnXEll ... hmadFElyan

[Le Chiffre]

Thanks Terry. The song is apparently from a British musical from the early 60s called THE ROAR OF THE GREASEPAINT, THE SMELL OF THE CROWD. The plot concerns theatrical performers, so it might have been up Welles's alley. The description of the ending at Wiki makes it sound like WAITING FOR GODOT, and one review described it as "a heady, absurdist-tinged mix of Samuel Beckett and Kander and Ebb."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roar_ ... _the_Crowd

I've never heard of the song before, and I find myself wondering why Welles did this charming little film, which I'd also never heard of. Was it part of something else?

[Terry]

Shindig! (ABC), episode 79, 1965, apparently.

https://youtu.be/BaPpuhrNJAI?t=1388