[net.tv] MASH Music

rjb@cucard.UUCP (08/31/83)

	The name of the song is "Suicide is Painless"
	by Johnny Mandel (i think).
-- 
Reidar Bornholdt
..!harpo!cucard!reidar

alle@ihuxb.UUCP (08/31/83)

I am familiar with the song, but I was wondering if anyone knows the
lyrics.  Something along the line of "Suicide is painless..."

Allen England at Bell Labs, Naperville, IL
ihnp4!ihuxb!alle

bps@cbscd5.UUCP (08/31/83)

I can answer half of the question:

	The actual title of the M*A*S*H theme is "Suicide Is Painless."
	It was played (and sung!) in the original M*A*S*H movie.
	The movie credits mentioned the title (which I remembered) and
	also the songwriter (which I don't).

edward@utcsrgv.UUCP (Edward Hsing) (09/01/83)

I can't remember the whole theme but I do remember part:

...
The game of life is hard to play.
I'm gonna lose it anyway.
I realize and I can see ....

(I need help)

				Ed Hsing
				(No, I meant help with the song)

waltt@tekecs.UUCP (Walt Tucker) (09/02/83)

I don't remember all the lyrics to the original, but I'm pretty
confident the chorus went like this:

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Suicide is painless;
It brings on may changes;
and I can take or leave them if I please.

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One of the verses (first?) verse started:

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The game of life is hard to play;
Gonna lose it anyway;
(something something something...)
and all I've got to say is:

Suicide is painless;
It brings...etc...etc
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                               -- Walt

engels@ihuxs.UUCP (09/16/83)

Why do I recognize the name Loudon Wainwright III? What else did he do?

jeff@dciem.UUCP (Jeff Richardson) (09/20/83)

Loudon Wainright III played a dentist for one season of MASH.
I believe it was in the third year of the show.
I can't remember his MASH name.  I think he bunked in the swamp
with Hawkeye, Trapper and Frank after Spearchucker had left.

                            Jeff Richardson
                            DCIEM, Toronto

edward@utcsrgv.UUCP (Edward Hsing) (09/21/83)

Loudon Wainwright III had a large number of bit parts on MASH

One was as a singing soldier with a guitar who was anonymous
and sang songs about the theme of the episode.

One example was when Hawkeye was trying to get to Tokyo and the
war was getting in the way.  Occassionally the scene would shoot
 to Wainwright singing:

Oohh Tokyo.
They got some saki and sashimi
and some clean sheets ooh komono, komono.

                		Ed Hsing
				utzoo!utcsrgv!edward

jsf007@trsvax.UUCP (09/29/83)

#R:tekecs:-201200:trsvax:54900009:000:39
trsvax!jsf007    Sep 21 08:54:00 1983

"Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road"