(Published to Youtube on Nov 7, 2017)
The song, ( with lyrics by Fran Landeman and music by Tommy Wolf) featured in 1959 Broadway jazz musical “The Nervous Set” – a cynical, intellectual satire about the beat generation. The song in the show is about a female character’s reaction to “wasted lives” of the men she sees around her.
The song, ( with lyrics by Fran Landeman and music by Tommy Wolf) featured in 1959 Broadway jazz musical “The Nervous Set” – a cynical, intellectual satire about the beat generation. The song in the show is about a female character’s reaction to “wasted lives” of the men she sees around her.
This is what I looked like when I first heard the song on a Davy graham LP in the late 60s. Maybe I was one of the sad young men then. (just a sad old man now!) Anyway, this is my tentative arrangement of the song.