Wanting to be " Like It Was"   Sometimes, in our imagination we would like to return and relive golden moments from the past. This song is from Stephan Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along, a musical that starts in the present and goes back in time to a beginning. Carol Burnett sings so effectively about days gone by, days that are gone but delightedly yet wistfully remembered.

https://youtu.be/E6rVUrQP8_c 

Everybody Ought to Have a Maid: In his first Broadway musical, Stephan Sondheim solves that old complaint " It's hard to find good help today" In Everybody Ought to have a maid, Zero Mostel and friends in A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To the Forum list all the licentious benefits of a live- in maid in Ancient Rome.

 https://youtu.be/Ahqu1nd3Zu8

Guess I'll Go Back Home This Summer  This poignant song was written by Willard Robison,.He was a songwriter in the rural, folksy tradition of Hoagy Carmichael and Johnny Mercer and this song invokes thoughts of any places from which we all might have come. It was sung by Jack Teagarden, a masterful jazz trombonist who was also a compelling vocalist with a natural , down home country jazz feel.


https://youtu.be/4hPwmh6s7s8

Everything I've Got Belongs to You  With Richard Rodgers, Larry Hart wrote these tongue-in-cheek lines that promise to lunch multiple mayhem on the singer;s target. Done in an equally sardonic and minimalist fashion by Blossom Dearie, she is also accompanied by Dr. Billy Taylor, song scholar and jazz educator.

https://youtu.be/Nynn1XMj8DE 

You Are There   Memories of those who have gone still haunt those left behind, A Johnny Mandel composition with lyrics by Dave Frishbergm a composer in his own right of songs like Peel Me A Grape and My Attorney Bernie.
Roseanne Vitro, a singer new to me sings with great conviction and clarity,  is accompanied by pianist Kenny Werner.

https://youtu.be/ZScfz65CrQc 

Joy Spring    Jazz Trumpet legend Clifford Brown wrote this ode to the joy that spring can bring. Lyrics were added by Jon Hendricks of Lambert, Hendricks and Ross whose own nroots in jazz were helpful in creating lyrics for an up tempo, challenging jazz composition. Karrin Allyson, a talented singer/pianist is up to the challenge of performing such a unique jazz influenced song.

https://youtu.be/N19RpTLhAZM 

This Happy Madness  Sinatra and Jobim sing lyrics by Canadian Gene Lees who worked at the Spec and later edited Downbeat magazine.
There is a tricky, triple internal rhyme scheme by Lees when he has Sinatra sing
" And I fell gladly, sadly and madly into love."

https://youtu.be/DVQ_OCXiBmY