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 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,