Heavenly Music (1943)

Frederick Brady: Ted Barry

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• Ted Barry : Do you have any boyfriends up here? Or, could we step outside some night and cut up a cloud?

  Joy : Oh, no. I couldn't do that. You see, I'm an angel.

• Ted Barry : Oh, it's no use. I just can't think.

  Joy : Don't think. Just look at me. No, into my eyes. Look. Don't think.

  [kiss] 

• Ted Barry : I'm licked.

  Joy : Oh no you're not.

• Ted Barry : Now I know why they call it heaven.

  Joy : Because I'm beautiful?

  Ted Barry : Oh, you know it, eh?

  Joy : Everybody's beautiful here.

• Ted Barry : [singing]  As we soar higher and higher, Why is my heart blissfully swaying? That's because it hears violins playing...

• Ted Barry : Look, mister, you don't seem to be hep. I'm Ted Barry, the old maestro. You know: Dance and smile, the Barry style.

• Johannes Brahms : I beg your pardon, but, what was the musical form you mentioned: boogie?

  Ted Barry : Boogie Woogie, Mr. Brahms. Well that's just, you know, barrelhouse music. Eight to the bar. Plenty of schmaltz.

  Niccolò Paganini : Schmaltz? Huh, that sounds like you, Wagner.

• Ludwig van Beethoven : Mr. Barry, may I ask what type of music you have conducted?

  Ted Barry : Oh, the usual routine: boogie woogie and dixieland, sweet stuff for the ickies, jump music for the hepcats, but, solid.