TEA FOR TWO
Created on 23/04/2006Latest update on 18/08/2020
Artist: Louise Groody & John Barker
Author: Vincent Youmans/Irving Caesar
Year: 1924
In musical No No Nanette. The story goes lyricist Irving Caesar had spend a whole day with composer Vincent Youmans working on new songs and fell asleep. Youmans, who'd found a new tune, needed some words immediately. "Can't they wait until tomorrow?" No they couldn't. So Caesar gave him some nonsense lyric lines that he thought wouldn't survive the morning after but they challenge posterity instead.
Covers:
- 1925:
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- 1958:
Warren Covington [inheriting Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra; als Tea For Two Cha Cha]
- 1960:
Ernie Fields [idem]
- 1964:
- 1971:
- 1997:
The theme of Tea For Two reminds that of Le Golf from Sports et divertissements by French composer Erik Satie (1914).
