Monotonous

'Monotonous' is a popular song written by June Carroll and Arthur Siegel for Leonard Sillman's Broadway revue New Faces of 1952. The song was written based on the experiences of its singer Eartha Kitt. It was performed, on the insistence of Kitt on three chaise longues (Kitt tried originally for six and given three in compromise), crawling cat-like from one to the other, demonstrating her flexibility and her dance training from the Katherine Dunham Company. The song also includes references to many well-known people of the 1950s. People referenced in the song include:

• Montgomery Clift
• Jacques Fath (the song states that he made a new style for Eartha Kitt, and based on when she opened the club Le Perroquet, and Fath provided her with a completely new wardrobe as he admired her body).
• Johnnie Ray
• Harry S. Truman
• T. S. Eliot
• Farouk of Egypt
• Sherman Billingsley
• Chiang Kai-Shek
• Gayelord Hauser
• Dwight David Eisenhower, referred to as "Ike"

Some of the lyrics were changed in the film version, because they were too outdated. For example, "Ike Likes me" was changed to the "Dragnet" theme.

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