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,
Younger Than Yesterday the Byrds' best." Alan Bisbort, writing in the book "Rhino's Psychedelic Trip", described "Younger Than Yesterday" as "an essential snapshot of an incense-scented, acid-drenched world in motion: a kaleidoscope whose every turn yielded some fantastic window on the age". In 2003, the album was ranked at number 124 on "Rolling Stone" magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". When the list was revised in 2012, to accommodate a number of albums released since 2003, "Younger Than Yesterday" was repositioned at number 127. "Younger Than Yesterday" was issued on Compact Disc for the first time by Edsel Records