"Surrey with a Fringe on Top" by Blossom Dearie (from the album One Upon a Summertime, 1958)
A bit of Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadyway kitsch revised in the cabaret way by a wonderfully urbane and pixie-voiced chanteuse. We're not traversing the terrain in a surrey with a fringe, but this one is, well, somehow appropriate nevertheless.
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Couldn't keep away could you?
:)
I confessed straight up the other day: this is a veritable addiction now!
I can't even hear a mention of that song without thinking about When Harry Met Sally. It's a great scene.
You gotta check out the Blossom Dearie version, or the mid-1950s Miles Davis version. Both are revelations.
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