"  Searching for beauty & optimism ?  A Song of Summer, by Frederick Delius . An 11 minute tone poem that should evoke contemplation and serenity . This is something we all need during these perilous and fractious times.

 https://youtu.be/2qsriktzVFw

"  A Time For Love"   Another song by Johnny Mandel. lyrics Paul Francis Webster for the film An American Dream. The words of Webster are quite poetic
" As time goes drifting by" "A time for summer skies & hummingbirds & butterflies "'. As sung by Tony Bennett, the lyrics adjust magically to the wonderful melody of Mandel.

 https://youtu.be/ko_QMd0ZBjQ

"  I Have dreamed"  Richard Rodgers, like Jerome Kern, was a notorious stickler for wanting his songs to be sung exactly as they appeared on the printed sheet music. He hated how vocalists and jazz musicians altered the tempos and added improvisational twists to the original compositions.
He did compliment Dorsi Day saying " Her version of  " I Have Dreamed" was the finest interpretation he had ever heard of  his famous waltx from "  The King and I."

Doris Dy was much more than the young lady courted by Rock Hudson or James Garner in polite sex comedies. Will Freidwald, a most critical song scholar, described her voice sounding like " Liquid Sunshine."

https://youtu.be/8ncM4w4BeZk 

"  Eydie Gorme Sings Two Cole Porter ballads."  Although Cole Porter wrote clever,fast-paced songs with ingenious rhymes, he had a more thoughtful & restrained side to his writing both music and lyrics.
" Why Shoudn't I ?" ponders the wisdom of falling for romance whereas  " Every Time We Say Goodbye" speaks of the heartbreak from even the briefest departure.
Both songs are sung by Eydie Gorme, a singer who also had a lengthy solo career in addition to her duet career with husband Steve Lawrence. Gorme has a clear, penetrating voice with a 4 octave range \She can also softly caress tender love ballads like the two songs performed here.

 https://youtu.be/veh3AUY7gjk

https://youtu.be/PNC3yRte1FM 

"  Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most " A song from the post- Great American Songbook era but having the same musical and poetic qualities as its predecessors. Music is by Tommy Wolfe and lyrics are by Fran Landesman
The ending has a memorable descending melodic line. The lyrics are quite colloquial and noteworthy
and well-matched to Tommy Wolfe's sinuous melodic structure.
Jane Monheit is a rising jazz and cabaret performer who is building a very substantial catalogue of traditional standards and more recent worthwhile compositions.

https://youtu.be/KPvy-leSy6E 

"  Spring is Here"   This is a somewhat sad reflection of Rodgers & Hart asking " Why Doesn't the breeze delight Me etc." Given the current pandemic situation, there is not a lot to inspire the typical anticipation of what a new season can bring. In fact, ten years later, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein 11 wrote,  " It Might as Well Be Spring", a much more positive perspective on the predictable delights of springtime.
I offer both versions , each one of which offers musical and poetic pleasures. Both songs are given fine performances by Frank Sinatra , First arrangement by Nelson Riddle, The second by Don Costa, a great writer for strings.

 https://youtu.be/LZi-l9jVgeU      Frank Sinatra

https://youtu.be/rRZVSWDW2Jo   Sinatra

" Missing versions of Yesterdays ( Jerome Kern) & Yesterday ( Paul McCartney)
An earlier Facebook post compared two versions of songs dealing with personal memories. 
The versions I had quoted are no longer available due to copyright restrictions. 

Instead, Ella Fitzgeral subs for Sinatra on Yesterdays while Paul McCartney performs Yesterday in a live concert.

 https://youtu.be/GNJecweyc4o


https://youtu.be/wXTJBr9tt8Q