Spring can really hang you up the most: Not all spring songs describe the pleasures that spring may bring. This 1955 song by Tommy Wolf and Fran Landesman tells that
 " Spring has got me feeling, like a horse that never left the post" or 
 '' Doctors once prescribed a tonic--Didn't help a bit, my condition must be chronic, Spring can really hang you up the most."
The performance of Lisa Rich is quite effective as she clearly articulates the unusual lyrics to bring the essence of the song to life.

 https://youtu.be/FjSAP6sGKxI

Tony Bennett & Where Do You Start ?  This is a tender reminder of what one may feel after a romantic break up. It's a song by Johnny Mandel ( Shadowof your smile, Emily, Theme from M.A.S.H) and lyrics by Allan & Marilyn Bergman.
The song is given a heart felt yet restrained performance by Tony Bennett in an arrangement composd and conducted by Johnny Mandel. This is music making of the highest order.
 
 https://youtu.be/uGG3fbOtAKg

Ella announces that "Spring is Here, I Hear"  Rodgers & Hart wrote this somewhat rueful song that combines the joy of a long delayed winter with the sadness of one who laments " Because no one loves me." 
Here is a perfect example of the power of a verse, a device that serves to introduce the themes of what are to follow in the main chorus. Ella's usual graceful performance is contrasted with the young Sinatra version that conveys the sadness of the lyrics and that plaintive melody.

https://youtu.be/jaXqP0t8CAg         Ella

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

Double Rainbow ( means good luck)  This another fine Bossa Nova song by the Master, Antonio Carlo Jobim. The English lyrics were by Gene Lees, noted jazz scholar and lyricist.
This is a lush otchestral arrangement supporting the light, ethereal voice of singer Stacy Kent. a style most appropriate to convey the essence of the Bossa Nova sound ( relaxed yet with a gently insistent, rhythmic pulse. The arrangement is  by Tommy Lawrence. 

 https://youtu.be/epv-4FZk4wc

A hilarious Bob & Ray radio sketch featuring a bonehead radio interviewer as he screws up his interview with Dr. Daryl Dexter, worlds living expert on the Komodo Dragon . Some younger blog vewers may not be aware of the comedy duo of Bob & Ray who were a very popular radio team on the 1950's. They featured dead pan, often banal sketches. on the mundane aspects of life  with charcters like Wally Bellew , the slow Talkers of America. Charles the Poet etc. I especially love their coverage of the Corrupt Mayor of Skunk Hollow , New Jersey.
 I include this in a musical blog because it demonstrates he importance of timing in comedy just as it is in jazz-the right expression (beat) at the right time. Sometimes the pauses are more significant than the words or notes.

 https://youtu.be/NqpmJ-VmmpM

Sinatra sings of " That Old Devil Moon."  Burton Lane and E.Y.Harburg wrote the song for Finians Rainbow, a 1947 show dealing with Irish mysticism and racial relations ( quite an unusual combination of subjct matters). The 1967 film starred Fred Astaire and Petula Clark and was the first feature film directed by Francis Ford Coppola before his Godfather Sagas. 

 https://youtu.be/2RLN7WNhiL4

Cole Porter asks " How can you be down in the depths when you live on the nineteenth floor in Manhattan ?"
Renee Fleming. a real live diva, provides an answer.
If you do not have the lover you crave, you will be depressed. She knows that "Even a janitors' wife, has a perfectly good life" but not her.

 https://youtu.be/x8m7joI9bYE