Quote of the day:

No innocent person ever has an alibi.
—Agatha Christie

As I mentioned yesterday, there are songs that Stephen Sondheim wrote for the film Dick Tracy  that I like more than the one that won the Oscar for Best Song, “Sooner or Later”, like for example, “More”.

It’s a great example of what Sondheim could do when he was in his pastiche mode, it references perhaps a half a dozen or more songs from the 30s and 40s. Songs like “I Got Plenty of Nuthin’” and “The Best Things in Life Are Free”. Of course, its lyrics completely contradict those classic songs.

Then its accompaniment figure comes straight from the Gershwin classic “I Got Rhythm”, another tune that the lyrics reference.

In the film we only see Madonna as Breathless rehearsing the song, it doesn’t get sung in its entirety until the closing titles, which is a good reason to stick around until the very end.

Some kind soul took Madonna’s version and added the lyrics to it, which is very helpful as the lyrics get a bit tricky at a few places. That’s the video that I’ve embedded below.