Make Someone Happy

Randon Thoughts / Listening Pleasures

It's a wonderful feeling when we make someone happy.


This lovely popular song "Make Someone Happy" is introduced in the musical Do Re Mi with with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and a book by Garson Kanin, who also directed the original 1960 Broadway production. The plot is about a minor-league con man who decides to go straight by going into the business of juke boxes and music promotion.

Below, the song  is beautifully interpreted by Monica Ramey, singer, and Beegie Adair, pianist.  I first heard this beautiful song sung by Jimmy Durante in the film "Sleepless in Seattle." 

Make Someone Happy

Songwriters: Adolph Green / Betty Comden / Jule Styne

Make Someone Happy lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc

It's so important to make someone happy,
Make just one someone happy;
Make just one heart the heart you sing to.
One smile that cheers you,
One face that lights when it nears you,
One girl you're ev'rything to.

Fame if you win it,
Comes and goes in a minute.
Where's the real stuff in life to cling to?
Love is the answer,
Someone to love is the answer.
Once you've found her, build your world around her.

Make someone happy, make just one someone happy,
And you will be happy, too.

Related Links / Resources:

Do Re Mi (Musical). en.wikipedia.org 




Video Credit:

Monica Ramey with Beegie Adair - Make Someone Happy. YouTube, uploaded by MLRJazz. Accessed May 1, 2018. 




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Ebb Tide

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just sitting and looking at the sea? Highs and lows? The waves dance to the music of its melodies. Lately, I've been consistently wanting soft currents in my own waves. (I took this picture during my few days' holiday in Sunshine Coast before Christmas 2017.)


Matt Monro sings "Ebb Tide," one of my favourite popular songs down memory lane. Composed by Robert Maxwell and lyrics by Carl Sigman.




Video Credit:
Ebb Tide by Matt Monro. YouTube, uploaded by 65Seasons. Accessed April 21, 2018.



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Clara Wieck Schumann's Trio Für Violine, Cello and Piano, Op. 17

"Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?"
~ Clara Wieck Schumann

Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/clara_schumann

Over a cup of coffee (loving the smell of Rosabaya Nespresso), I'm enjoying an early Saturday cool morning with Clara Schumann's music, Trio in G-minor, Op. 17. Clara Wieck Schumann is one of my most admired woman composers of all time.

Beautiful composition.

Robert Schumann was fortunate in having such a dutiful and talented wife giving up her musical talent, composition in particular, for marriage. Such creative energies lost but we're still blest to capture some of her delightful works. 

Video Credit:

Clara Schuman - Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano, G-minor, Op. 17. YouTube, uploaded by Yuliya Debedenko. Accessed April 14, 2018.



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The Mystery of Your Gift

Reveries / Listening Pleasures

"It's the courage to turn when the pages have burned
And your story now seems at an end.
Seasons stay and seasons go
Sending your memories adrift.
It's the beautiful longing, embrace the unknown
That's the mystery of your gift."


This beautiful song "The Mystery of Your Gift" is featured in the film BoyChoir released in 2015. Josh Groban recorded and co-wrote it with Brian Byrne, featuring The American Boychoir. After watching the film, I was blown away by the song. As one passionate for choral singing, a choir member since I was a child and now a chorister with the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs in the autumn of life, I find the lyrics extremely meaningful and the tender singing by Josh Groban poignantly touches my soul.

It's not important to me that the movie has inaccuracies, for example, about Handel's Messiah. Contrary to what the movie implied that there were no boy soprano parts, Handel actually wrote the soprano arias for boys and those parts were sung in Dublin and at the Coram Benefit Concert. 

The BoyChoir (film) and its featured "The Mystery of Your Gift" (song), offer an inspiring message on growth, change, and the love that binds us together. "Seasons stay and seasons go, sending your memories adrift... and the lessons you gave to me: before you can fly, you must fall. It's the beautiful longing, embrace the unknown, that's the mystery of your gift." 





The Mystery of Your Gift (Lyrics) 

A single note passes out of the ashes
A flickering ember begins
It's the courage to turn when the pages have burned
And your story now seems at an end.

Seasons stay and seasons go
Sending your memories adrift.

It's the beautiful longing, embrace the unknown
That's the mystery of your gift.

And the echoes of your melody will always live in these walls
And the lessons that you gave to me, before you can fly, you must fall
It's the beautiful longing, embrace the unknown
That's the mystery of your gift.

There's a voice in the shadow calling for more
There's a rhythm that beats from within
Lending your voice to the warmth of the song
There's a strength in the choir of one
Pure as the voice that sees the place where the weight of your past may now lift
It's the beautiful longing, embrace the unknown
That's the mystery of your gift.

And the echoes of your melody will always live in these walls
And the lessons that you gave to me, before you can fly you must fall
So sing higher & higher, a thousand new voices ring through
If you sing out of the fire, the courage you need comes from you.


Related Links / Resources:

The Mystery of your Gift (original) by Josh Groban. Choir: American BoyChoir. Accessed April 2, 2018.

The Mystery of Your Gifts (Lyrics).  www.metrolyrics.com. Accessed April 2, 2018.

The Mystery of Your Gift. www.jwpepper.com. Accessed April 2, 2018.



Video Credit:

The Mystery of Your Gift. YouTube, uploaded by TUPIC. Accessed April 2, 2018. 




(c) 2018.  Inspired Pen. Leaves from my Musings.  All rights reserved.