This Time Next Year-Classical Artists

This Time Next Year - Various Artists Various Artists Sunset Blvd. Cd 1 This Time Next Year Dawn:By this time next year I'll have landed a juicy part Steve:Nineteen fifty will be my start Richard T.:No more carrying spears Mary:I'll be discovered My life won't ever be the same Billy wilder will know my name And he'll call all the time Katherine:till he does can one of you guys Lend her a dime? Alisa:Just an apartment With no roaches and no dry rot Anita:where the hot water comes out hot Both:That's my Hollywood dream Joanna:My resolution is to write something that gets shot With approximately the plot I first had in my head Myron:But you'll get rewritten Even after your dead. Artie:It's the year to begin a new life, Buy a place somewhere quiet, Somewhere pretty. When you have a young kid and a wife Then you need somewhere green far From the city. It's a rambling old house with A big apple tree With a swing for the kid and a hammock For me. Sammy:Behold, my children It is I, Cecil B. DeMille Meeting me must be quite a thrill, Adam:But there's no need to kneal. Sammy:I guarantee you Every girl in my chorus line Is a genuine philistine Adam :they don't come off the shelf Sammy:I flew everyone in from philistia myself. Joe:how's your next project? Betty:Sheldrake's anxious to option it I've a feeling he smells a hit We've got so much to do. Joe:Betty, you're forgetting that I gave it to You. You remind me of me long ago Off the bus, full of ignorant ambition Thought I'd waltz into some studio And achieve overnight recognition. But an audience thinks when it's watching The screen. That the actors make up every word In the scene. Betty:I've done an outline, But I can't write it on my own Can't we speak on the telephone? All my evenings are free. Artie:Hey just a minute I'm the fellow who bought the ring Betty:Artie, this is a business thing It's important to me You'll be on location in Clinch Tennessee. Please make this your new year Resolution for me. All:by this time next year, I will get my foot in the door Next year I know I'm going to score An amazing success Cut to the moment When they open the envelope Pass the statuette to Bob Hope And It's my name they hear We'll be down on our knees Outside Grauman's Chinese Palm prints there on the street Immortality's neat! This time next year This time next year We'll have nothing to fear Contracts all signed Three-picture deal Yellow brick road career Hope we're not still saying these things This time next year.