Fun to be Fooled-Last Song before the Hollywood Transition: " Life Begins at 8:40 " was a successful 1934 Shubert Brothers production with music by Harold Arlen. " Fun To Be Fooled" has been described as a reflective, semi-torch song , one in which the singer indulges in a certain resigned humour at losing in the love game. In the bridge or release Arlen again resorts to 3 sets of octave jumps which always seem to inject a little more dramatic flavour into the song.
I specially like the lyrics in the release that sing, almost tongue in cheek that " It's that old Debbil Moon having his fling once more, Selling me Spring once more, I'm afraid love is king once more !" Near the end, the lyrics repeat that it's " Fun to be fooled, Fun to pretend, This little dream won't end !"
Lee Wiley a sultry, warm-voiced singer is the perfect person to deliver what is a difficult song to capture both the sadness of one who knows that love won't last and the adult acceptance that life sometimes does really suck ( pardon the contemporary vernacular.)
Lee Wiley had a history replete with a great many gentlemen callers, beaux ,boyfriends, lovers like Victor Young ,Bunnie Berrigan and Artie Shaw. Nonetheless her younger brother Ted asked her if she ever regretted any of her life decisions she'd made in her life. She answered that no,, that she wasn't sentimental-that when she broke up with somebody, it didn't faze her. Maybe she really believed that it was fun ( or inevitable) to be fooled in her own life.
LINK http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg8rdXh0eHg
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