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Panel text reads: The Trouble with Me is You 1945/46. Mendez Marks, lyrics; Judd Woldin, score “The Trouble with Me is You” wods by Mendez Marks – Music by Eddy Woldin Verse: Some doctors are for pills, some meet you with a knife, I’m tired of waiting rooms, and back copies of “LIFE”, I’m through with waiting next day, to see an x-ray, of bills I’ve quite a few. But there’s nothing they can do– I’ve been to doctors from Maine to Texas they have test-ed my re-flexes here’s the key to my complexes the trouble with me is you I sleep 8 hours by the clock a-void all form of sudden shock my ears don’t ring my knees don’t knock the trouble with me is you ev-ry symptom shows the case is in your hands even the druggist knows you’re [] ev-ry pre-scription de–mands they diagnosed it at a glance over ex-pos-ure to ro-mance I don’t stand a fighting change the trouble with me is you Sworn to and Subscribed before me this 10th day of September, 1945 Estelle V. Ciccone / Edwin Woldin Judd Woldin (1945/1946) I met Mendez Marks during the Black Mountain summer session of 1945 and was immediately struck by his extraordinary wit. Although my intentions were to study architecture there was enough saloon piano player/songwriter left in me to recognize a potential Lorenz Hart. I convinced Mendez to try lyric-writing and we wrote the song below and another called “I’ve lost my direction” which Janey Stone gave a scatological title to immediately. Unfortunately shortly thereafter, over a serious disappointment in his literary career, Mendez took his life. I’m convinced he would have gravitated to the musical theater and produced distinguished work.

Artwork: 1995.37.1

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1995
Paper on foam board
This work was created for the 1995 exhibition Remembering Black Mountain College curated by Mary Emma Harris in conjunction with Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and the BMC alumni reunion organized by Mary Holden Thompson, founding director of BMCM+AC.
24 x 18 inches
In copyright
Gift of Judd Woldin
Judd Woldin, Untitled, 1995. Paper on foam board. Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Gift of the artist.
1995 Remembering Black Mountain College Exhibition and Alumni Reunion Collection
Remembering Black Mountain College