They Call the Wind Maria

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"They Call the Wind Maria" is a popular show tune from the 1951 Broadway musical *Paint Your Wagon*, known for its haunting melody and depiction of loneliness and longing in the American West.

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They Call the Wind Maria canonical 3
They Call the Wind Mariah 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf musical theatre song
show tune
song
associatedWith American musical theatre canon
characterWhoSingsInMusical Steve
composer Frederick Loewe
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
describes harshness of frontier life
yearning for companionship
firstPerformanceYear 1951
fromMusical Paint Your Wagon
genre Broadway music
show tune
hasAlternateSpelling They Call the Wind Maria self-linksurface differs
surface form: They Call the Wind Mariah
hasCulturalImpact became a popular song outside the musical
hasForm ballad
hasKey minor key (commonly D minor in many arrangements)
hasMeter triple meter
hasNotableRecording Bobby Darin recording
Harve Presnell recording
Roger Whittaker recording
Shirley Bassey recording
Smothers Brothers recording
The Kingston Trio recording
Vaughn Monroe recording
hasStyle folk-influenced show tune
includedIn cast recordings of Paint Your Wagon
includedInFilmAdaptation Paint Your Wagon
surface form: Paint Your Wagon (1969 film)
lyricist Alan Jay Lerner
lyricsBy Alan Jay Lerner
medium voice and orchestra
musicBy Frederick Loewe
notableFor evocative depiction of the American frontier
haunting melody
use of personification of the wind
originalLanguage English
originalProduction Paint Your Wagon
surface form: Paint Your Wagon (1951 Broadway production)
partOf Paint Your Wagon
performedByCharacterType cowboy
performedIn Broadway theater
surface form: Broadway theatre
publicationYear 1951
settingDescribed Old West
surface form: American West
theme isolation
loneliness
longing
title They Call the Wind Maria self-link
usedAs popular standard

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Alan Jay Lerner notableSong They Call the Wind Maria
Paint Your Wagon notableSong They Call the Wind Maria
They Call the Wind Maria title They Call the Wind Maria self-link
They Call the Wind Maria hasAlternateSpelling They Call the Wind Maria self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: They Call the Wind Mariah