>If you need a good Christmas cry

by Roger Sutton
Dec 11, 2008 | Filed in Articles & Opinion
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Roger Sutton
Roger Sutton

Editor Emeritus Roger Sutton was editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc., from 1996-2021. He was previously editor of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books and a children's and young adult librarian. He received his MA in library science from the University of Chicago in 1982 and a BA from Pitzer College in 1978.

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Anonymous

>Thanks for posting the Gilligan's Islands lyrics missing from my mind since I saw this episode in April 1968--remembered them all except "guard thy solvency"! (the exact date of the viewing driven into my mind by MLK's assassination)

Posted : Dec 17, 2009 03:00

web

>Oh, that one just kills me. My son and I like to sing it together. Must teach him the harmony part someday.

Posted : Dec 15, 2008 11:15

ifahren

>Fabulous! Thanks. It's good to have someone who knows the classics!
ifahren

Posted : Dec 11, 2008 08:18

Elizabeth

>Hey, ifahren, if you need your Gilligan's Island lyrics, then I'm your woman.

Think twice and take this good advice from me/
Guard thy solvency!

Posted : Dec 11, 2008 06:58

ifahren

>Ahhh, a humorous, musical blast from the past! The castaways performing "Hamlet, the Musical." Singing Polonius speech to Laertes to the tune of the "Toreador Song."

"Neither a borrower, nor a lender be,
Do not forget, stay out of debt.
Think twice, and take this good advice from me...
(forgetting a line or two here...)
...There's just one other thing,
You've got to do,
To thine own self be true!"

Brilliant casting of the pompous Mr. Howell as the windbag Polonius.

A new generation is loving this. One of my first graders said she saw this episode and fell off her chair laughing.

ifahren

Posted : Dec 11, 2008 06:03

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