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MELISSA ERRICO SINGS “LAST NIGHT WHEN WE WERE YOUNG”

February 24, 2023 ypadmin

Melissa Errico sang the Yip Harburg-Harold Arlen classic “Last Night When We Were Young” in her concert “A Noir Romance” (Feb. 10-14, 2023) at Birdland Jazz Club Theater in New York City.

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A thousand a week will start Ruth Etting
Imbibing tears and fretting
That life’s the bunk, there ain’t no love!

Miss Morgan’s lachrymose ways
Pay all her bills at Cartier’s.

And tho’ she can’t control men,
The livid Libby Holman
Controls the rolls you’re dreaming of.

There’s milk and honey in every cloud,
When you get money for cryin’ out loud,
So let your lucky saint know
You’re tickled pink,
There ain’t no love.

Lyric excerpt: “There Ain’t No Love”
words by Yip Harburg, music by Vernon Duke
from The Garrick Gaieties (1930)
This sendup of the era’s torch songs and the female singers who popularized them (namely, Ruth Etting, Helen Morgan and Libby Holman) was introduced by an ensemble featuring Rosalind Russell and Imogene Coca before they became household names via movies and television.

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