One for my baby (and one more for the road) – by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer.

It’s been a while since I’ve linked to a song of the week. A shame really, as I love the way that finding the songs on YouTube enables me to explore and appreciate the greats. So here we have Mark Steyn discussing “One for my baby (and one more for the road)” by Harold Arlen [...]

Morning Train – by Florrie Palmer

Song of the week this week is ‘Morning Train’ by Florrie Palmer.
The topic is train songs, which go from Johnny Mercer’s “I thought about you”:

via Felix Leclerc’s “Train du nord”:

Apparently there’s a song by Jerome Kern and P.G. Wodehouse called “The Enchanted Train” about the Long Island Rail Road. I cannae find [...]