Mercoledi Musicale

I only wish that I could join Vanessa Williams in singing this great number from Harold Arlen's House of Flowers.

Though nobody beats Diahann Carroll who first sang the song in her 1954 Broadway debut, the combination of Vanessa Williams and the incredible cello obbligato by Martha Babcock is pretty darn fine.  If that doesn't melt the snow, nothing will.

The view from our living room this morning - yeah, yeah it's lovely.  Just a Winter Wonderland!
Talk to me sometime in late February and we'll compare wonderlands!  Okay?

Sadly I "has seen" snow - last night's "first big dump" of the winter wasn't quite as bad as they were predicting but .....   it's only November for heaven's sake!  If this is what we get in November what will we be getting the remaining  122 days before the official beginning of Spring?

November 27 -  1810: The Berners Street Hoax was perpetrated by Theodore Hook in the City of Westminster, London.
 

Lunedi Lunacy

I mentioned last week that Harold Arlen was one of the composers who worked on Cabin in the Sky for Ethel Waters. A little bit of research revealed that Arlen only wrote Happiness is Just A Thing Called Joe for the movie version - the rest of that remarkable score was the work of Vernon Duke. But Arlen does have an incredible catalogue of songs including this little number he and Yip Harburg wrote for Groucho Marx in 1939.



You can learn a lot from Lydia!

04 agosto - San Giovanni Vianney