I can definitely say that Mike Ford told us, here in Australia - at a literary science fiction convention called Syncon - that his intention was to list the tunes in the book, but Pocket Books' editors/lawyers said "No". We didn't think to ask him that weekend if all the songs definitely scanned exactly (and obviously some don't) but I know he was surprised and impressed that my musicals fanatic-friends at the time had guessed as many as they had. We shoulda written it all down then!
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1) p. 75-7: "We thought that you might like to know": Reprised on p. 250-1 as "We hope that you've enjoyed your stay" (p. 76 "From Charms Intramural" - Gilbert & Sullivan's "Ruddigore"; p. 77 "By A Simple Coincidence Few" - Gilbert & Sullivan's "Patience"; p. 77 "Now to the banquet we press" - Gilbert & Sullivan's "The Sorcerer". Those lines are sung by the Enterprise crew in response to their musical greeting from the natives, sort of getting into the spirit of things; they're just quoting something readily at hand in their memories. The locals are doing whole original songs tailored to the occasions.)
2) p. 85: "When first the light of dawning": Perhaps not a song, just a short inscription.
3) p. 87-9: "We'd like to welcome you sincerely". (Note: The last line is "Stompin' at the Savoy Way." "Stompin' at the Savoy" was a Benny Goodman song, however, its verse structure doesn't match.)
4) p. 94-5: "I'm supposed to be a princess": Reprised on p. 106-7 as "I suppose you've heard the story". (Could this have anything to do with either a Disney movie, or the Rodgers & Hammerstein "Cinderella"?)
5) p. 124-5: "Rollin' rollin' rollin'": Identified as "Theme from 'Rawhide'" by Dmitri Tiomkin & Ned Washington. From the "Rawhide" television series.
6) p. 128-30: "From the minute you're born": The evident "title" of this song is "My Own Sweet Tyrannical Way". (Christopher L Bennett once came up with a good fit for this song, based on "Hit the Road Jack". TG Theodore thought that p. 129 started to fit the song "Bless My Beautiful Soul" from "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers", but the scansion falls apart too soon.)
7) p. 138-40: "When I was just a little chap, my father said to me": Sounds very Gilbert & Sullivan, possibly "When I was a Lad" from "HMS Pinafore". (Based solely on the first line, it seems derived from "Lemon Tree", a song made popular by Peter, Paul & Mary. Maybe Ford created a composite song influenced by "Lemon Tree" but with more of a Gilbert & Sullivan structure and subject matter? The verse also fits with "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from "Mary Poppins" by Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman, but not the chorus. The song on p. 138 also fits the verse of "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" from "The Beverly Hillbillies" television series, but there's a couplet stuck in the middle of it.)
8) p. 161: "Falling apart again": Identified as "Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It)" by Frederick Hollander & Sammy Lerner.
9) Also p. 161: "I'm an automaton": This is "Just a Gigolo" by Leonello Casucci & Julius Brammer, although it doesn't quite fit.
9a) p. 162: "Oh, I / Ain't got no body...": These two lines quoted in isolation are a paraphrase of "I Ain't Got Nobody" by Spencer Williams (best known as part of a David Lee Roth medley in which the song is combined with "Just a Gigolo").
10) p. 165-7: "Once the screen was really silver": The evident "title" of this song is "Monochrome". (It is sung by 'Ilen the Magian' - anagram of writer, Neil Gaiman. The song title is probably an allusion to Paul Simon's "Kodachrome.")
Thanks to all the contributors from TrekBBS so far: Semah, Christopher, TGTheodore, KTrek, PaulSimpson, tmclough, Tallguy, hbquikcomjamesl and Captain Robert April, among others. This page is a work in progress.
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