My Favorite Things (song) My Favorite Things (song) "My Favorite Things" is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music." In the original Broadway production, this song was introduced by Mary Martin playing Maria and Patricia Neway playing Mother Abbess. Julie Andrews, who played Maria in the 1965 film version of the musical, had previously sung the song on the Christmas special for "The Garry Moore Show". In the musical, the lyrics to the song are a reference to things Maria loves, such as "whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens". These are the things
Little Things (One Direction song) at the time and I was playing it and they were like, 'We really like that'. It's got one of my favourite lines that I've ever written in a song." On 15 October 2012, Louis Tomlinson confirmed via social networking website Twitter that "Little Things" would serve as the second single of their second studio album "Take Me Home". "Little Things" is a mid-tempo pop and folk ballad which runs for 3:39 (3 minutes, 39 seconds). Written in the key of G major, the beat is set in common time and moves at a moderate 110 beats per minute. One