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,
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