[luvie]

Well, that is a very modern way of putting it!LOL!

Bravo!!

[Publius]

I had a surprise last night. I watched a PBS documentary about Jimmy van Heusen. I knew a lot of the songs he wrote with various lyricists and how he ended his career in a musical partnership with Sammy Cahn. What I didn’t know until last night was that he and Sammy wrote this song.

I always liked this tune because it opened a window into what a 1920's recording would have sounded like had it been recorded on modern equipment. I also found the lyrics to be wonderfully funny. Anyone who can turn Sodom-and-Gomorrah into an adjective has my undying admiration.

Julie Andrews: “Thoroughly Modern Millie”

[GeronL]

I once came up with a song because the ice machine was empty at work and someone had told me it was full.

So I asked “How full is your ice when it’s empty?”

and into my head popped the lyrics:

How full is your life when it’s empty
How much is it worth when it’s free
Sometimes in the crowd you’re lonely
and you’re always awake when you dream