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ALL IN FUN
(Jerome Kern (m) / Oscar Hammerstein (l) )
Sung by Margaret Whiting 1960
< Margaret Whiting Sings The Jerome Kern Songbook >
Also sung by:
Tony Bennett 2001 < The Art Of Romance >
Jeri Southern
Helen Forrest & Artie Shaw and His Orchestra
David Allen
Richard Himber
Meredith d'Ambrosio
Randy Lyght
And others...
We are seen around New York
El Morocco and the Stork
And the other stay-up-late cafés
I am on the town with you these days.
That's the way it stands.
Just a fellow and a girl
We have had a little whirl
And our feet have left the ground a bit
We've played around a bit
That's the way it stands.
For we are strictly good time charlies
Who like to drink and dance around
And maybe kick romance around
And that's the way it stands.
All in fun
This thing is all in fun
When all is said and done
How far can it go?
Some cocktails, some orchids
A show or two
A line in a column
That links me with you.
Just for laughs
I'm with you night and day
And so the dopes all say
That I'm that way 'bout you.
Well, here's the laugh
And when I tell you
This will kill you
What they say is true.
NOTES:
Margaret Whiting was a popular 1940s/50s/60s pop,
jazz, C & W singer and TV personality born in Detroit
USA. She had a host of recordings and continued to
entertain until the 1990s.
This song/lyric formed part of the soundtrack for the
1939 Broadway musical < Very Warm For May > . The musical
was adapted from the book of the same name written by
Oscar Hammerstein II. The musical was also very loosely
adapted in 1944 to the film < Broadway Rhythm > .
The most eminently recognizable song which appeared in both was
All The Things You Are
< Very Warm For May > 1939
Produced by Vincente Minelli
Leads (Opening Night)
June Allyson / Dolores Anderson / Eve Arden / Vera-Ellen
In a strange turn of events, during the 1980s, the original
cast performance which had heretofore been lost since 1939,
was found and reassembled into an LP Original Broadway Cast Recording.
(Transcribed by David Story - March 2014)
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