Rodgers & Hammerstein - "Younger Than Springtime"

Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein wrote some of the most iconic and memorable music ever to be on the broadway stage.

"Younger Than Springtime" is a show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific. It has been widely recorded as a jazz standard.

The song is performed in the first act by Lieutenant Cable when he makes love to his adored Liat, to whom he was only recently introduced by her mother Bloody Mary. The song shows that love just happens and does not follow the rules of racial separation prevalent in the United States at that time.

This production staring Matthew Morrison was really a beautiful endeavor.

The song however, is the eternal spring of youth that comes from being in love. There’s a level of vitality that blooms in a person when they are happy and in a loving relationship that helps them to stay vibrant. That vitality is shown to me each day as I wake up next to a man that I am grateful to be with. Lucky, happy, grateful and alive. Every day I get to spend with him is a gift.

So today, with a lift in my loafers, I choose Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Younger Than Springtime” as performed by Matthew Morrison as my, with each passing day, every moment ever hour, your smile makes my heart lighter, song for a, holding your hand I’m a better man, one more gift to add to the list, another love song that makes me think of you, Friday.

Coincidentally, Happy Anniversary babe.