Younger Than Springtime it was sung by John Kerr miming to a vocal by Bill Lee. Hammerstein used repetition as a key aspect of the song repeating the words "am I" and "are you" when describing Cable and Liat: "softer than starlight", "gayer than laughter" and "younger than springtime". The song is written in F Major. 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,
Springtime for the World Springtime for the World Springtime for the World was a 1990 album from The Blow Monkeys. The work represented the band's ultimate transformation into a dance music act, a direction that had been slowly started by their biggest hits ever, "It Doesn't Have to Be This Way" (Number 5 in the UK), and the album it was taken from, "She Was Only a Grocer's Daughter", which, by reaching Number 20 in the UK Album Chart, in April 1987, became their only LP to enter the British chart. The Blow Monkeys' next album, "Whoops! There Goes the Neighbourhood", out in 1988,