Younger Than Springtime Younger Than Springtime "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. In the original Broadway show, the song was performed by William Tabbert whilst in the 1958 film,
Springtime! total running time of over 69 minutes on a single 12" disc – considerably longer than the customary 40 minutes per album. The label was dormant for several years and then in the early 1990s released a series of albums distributed in the UK by Castle Communications which included reissues of previous successes such as "The Comic Strip Album" and the first-ever releases of extended two-volume editions of two of Amnesty's comedy galas 1976's "A Poke in the Eye" and 1981's "The Secret Policeman's Other Ball". In the USA, Springtime produced and distributed with Rhino Records a British comedy compilation