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I Sing The Body Electric  [Fame] - Songfacts:
This was the showcase song at the end of the 1980 movie Fame, where it was performed by the students at the New York City High School for the Performing Arts. The song was written by Michael Gore, who was the musical supervisor on the film, and Dean Pitchford, who also helped Gore write the title song and the song Red Light for the movie.
I Sing the Body Electric is the title of a 1855 poem by Walt Whitman, which is where Pitchford found the inspiration.   In our 2012 interview, he explained: "I had been working and working on this idea of how we were going to finish the motion picture Fame and what was going to be written about, and I knew that we wanted to write something that would be there for an orchestra, but for a rock band as well, and for a gospel choir and soloists and that would involve dance.  It had to be a lot of things to a lot of people in order to showcase all the abilities of these kids in the high school of performing arts. And on my way out the door I hit on this line from the Walt Whitman poem, I Sing the Body Electric, and on the walk, I wrote the whole first verse:
'I sing the body electric, I celebrate the me yet to come, I toast to my own reunion, when I become one with the sun and I'll look back on Venus, I'll look back on Mars, and I'll burn with the fire of ten million stars. And in time and in time we will all be stars.'





from I Sing the Body Electric by Walt Whitman | The Guardian
This best known //is it?// and most enthralling of Whitman’s poems is a praise-song to physicality

I sing the body electric,

The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them,

They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,

And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul. 

And if the body does not do fully as much as the soul?

And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?



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O my body! I dare not desert the likes of you in other men and women, nor the likes of the parts of you,
I believe the likes of you are to stand or fall with the likes of the soul, (and that they are the soul,)



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