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,
Song Reader: The Musical Song Reader: The Musical Song Reader: The Musical is a stage production with music by Beck, and book and arrangements by Harvey Droke and Daniel Hornal, which premiered at the Capital Fringe Festival in Washington, D.C. in 2016. The music is arrangements from "Song Reader", a 2012 Beck concept album released only in sheet music form. A conservative mother and father are praising their young soldier at a farewell gathering the night before his deployment to war (America Here’s My Boy). The soldier’s friends pressure the soldier to have some fun. (Do We – We Do) Wanting to adhere to