#SongLyricSunday-Luck Be a Lady Tonight – August 8

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This week our host Jim Adams for Song Lyric Sunday has given us the prompt of Fate, Fortune, Luck.

For the entire month of August I am doing a 30 Day Daily Prompt Challenge. Each day it requires you to write about that day’s prompt. So Jim is assisting me greatly with Song Lyric Sunday.

Please consider carving out time to read the posts of other bloggers who responded to this music challenge. You will hopefully will discover new songs, revisit an old favorite and it is quite possibly learn a thing or two.

Song Lyric Sunday Rules

Here are the “rules”:
• Post the lyrics to the song of your choice, whether it contains the prompt words or not.  If it does not meet the criteria, then please explain why you chose this song.
• Please try to include the songwriter(s) – it’s a good idea to give credit where credit is due.  Your post can be as long or as short as you want it to be.
• Make sure you also credit the singer/band and if you desire you can provide a link to where you found the lyrics.
• Link to the YouTube video, or pull it into your post so others can listen to the song.
• Ping back to this post or place your link in the comments section below.
• Read at least one other person’s blog, so we can all share new and fantastic music and create amazing new blogging friends in the process.
• Feel free to suggest future prompts.
• Have fun and enjoy the music.

Betting for gamblers involves both bad and good luck. I decided to focus on the prompt of luck for my choice this week. The song I choose is synonymous with one Frank Sinatra but the story on its origins and who first sang it surprised me.

My song is “Luck Be a Lady Tonight” that was written by Frank Loesser who is credited with the musical scores of “Guys and Dolls” and

“How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying”

Guys and Dolls included Luck Be A Lady when it hit Broadway in 1950. The song was first performed onstage by Robert Alda as gambler Sky Masterson. Alda was the father to Alan Alda.

In 1955 a film version of Guys and Dolls was released and the lead role of Nathan Detroit went to Frank Sinatra, but Marlon Brando snagged the part of Masterson.

Loesser clashed with Sinatra during the making of the Guys and Dolls movie as Sinatra insisted on singing Nathan Detroit’s numbers in his smooth signature style rather than adopt the gritty, tough-as-nails swagger Loesser had envisioned. According to Loesser’s daughter, Susan, the songwriter refused to see the film and he and Sinatra never spoke again.

Here are the lyrics

Here is Frank singing the song in concert

Here is Marlon Brando singing the song in the film.

Next week the prompt is Danger, Fear, Horror, Nightmare, Terror