March 14, 2003

• The Producers, Part Deux:

  
  

  The Consumers

  
  

  

  
  
  
  
  

  Sidney Lippman, Hit Songwriter, Dies at 89 From THE NEW YORK TIMES Sidney Lippman, the composer and songwriter who wrote the music for “A — You’re Adorable,” died on Tuesday, March 11, 2003, in New Jersey.  He was 89. He teamed up with lyricists Buddy Kaye and Fred Wise to write “A — You’re Adorable (The Alphabet Song)” which became a No. 1 hit in 1949 as an RCA Victor recording with Perry Como and the Fontane Sisters.

  
  

  See also my Tuesday, March 11, entry,

  
  

  The Producers,

  
  

  and my entry from 2001,

  
  

  Random Thoughts for St. Patrick’s Eve.

  
  

  The illustration above, a tribute to Meg Ryan on Einstein’s birthday, may serve as a counterpoint to the “Producers” entry of March 11, the date of Lippman’s death.

  
  

  The St. Patrick’s Eve note contains a rather different meditation on the letter “A.”  See too

  
  

  The Alphabet Versus the Goddess,

  
  

  an intriguing speculation by Leonard Shlain, who claims to show that “patriarchy and misogyny have moved contrapuntually to goddess veneration.”

  
  

  Well, maybe not quite yet; but blessed are the peacemakers.
  
  

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