Comments on: THE JOHNSTON BROTHERS - “Hernando’s Hideaway” http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2003/10/the-johnston-brothers-hernandos-hideaway/ Lollards in the high church of low culture Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:31:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: rosie http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2003/10/the-johnston-brothers-hernandos-hideaway/#comment-414610 rosie Sat, 03 May 2008 17:51:25 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2003/10/the-johnston-brothers-hernandos-hideaway/#comment-414610 It is, of course, a show tune, from <em>The Pajama Game</em>. Any romance involved is ironic (what's being described is a Prohibition-era speakeasy in Iowa, for heaven's sake! And during a garment workers' strike. Where I remember it best is from a cabaret bar in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1988 (I was staying with the pianist.) The speciality of the house was show tunes and this was an eternal favourite, with lighters lit - Rocky Horror Show style - at the "strikle a match" line. It is, of course, a show tune, from The Pajama Game. Any romance involved is ironic (what’s being described is a Prohibition-era speakeasy in Iowa, for heaven’s sake! And during a garment workers’ strike.

Where I remember it best is from a cabaret bar in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1988 (I was staying with the pianist.) The speciality of the house was show tunes and this was an eternal favourite, with lighters lit - Rocky Horror Show style - at the “strikle a match” line.

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