Golden Age Monday - Song Edition
The Golden Age was my boys' Rodgers and Hammerstein's heyday and I have some of their other shows saved for future posts (you're crazy if you think I'd forget about The Sound of Music ), but let's give them a little rest and talk about Lerner and Loewe. Or more specifically one song from one of my favorites. My Fair Lady has a ton of iconic songs and I was tempted to visit one from Henry Higgins or Mr. Dolittle ("Get Me to the Church on Time" was one of my early musical theatre jams), but I went for one that I think everyone sort of knows, one that has been covered practically a million times and one that could maybe be an ode to stalking? But just for this post we're going to pretend that it's incredibly sweet and maybe not questionable. "On The Street Where You Live" is a song that I think everyone can relate to the emotions of. Time passing, people staring, personal pride doesn't matter when the one you love is near or even...