"According to the title of a song from the musical ""The Sound of Music"", who was lonely?"
The Lonely Goatherd The Lonely Goatherd "The Lonely Goatherd" is a popular show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music" that makes use of yodeling. The song is well known for its examples of yodeling, a part of the traditional music of the Austrian Alps, where the musical is set. This song tells the whimsical story of a goatherd whose yodelling is heard from far off and by passers-by, until he falls in love with a girl who wears a pale-pink coat, with her mother joining in the yodelling. The original 1959 musical has this as the song
The Sound of Music (song) The Sound of Music (song) “The Sound of Music” is the title song from the 1959 musical "The Sound of Music." It was composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics written by Oscar Hammerstein II. In 1959, Rodgers and Hammerstein asked singer Patti Page to record the title song of their forthcoming musical, "The Sound of Music", hoping for some national attention. Page recorded the song for Mercury Records on the day that the musical opened on Broadway. Since Page's version was recorded a week before the original Broadway cast album, Page was the first artist to record any song from