Imagine how happy we would be

AN elderly nursing home resident's reminisce about the way the infectious strains of the great song, Two for Tea, spread through the young people of her home city of London sent me on the research path.
Audrey has been a great fan of my Music for Seniors program at her Redland nursing home since I began visiting her unit in 2016. She knows a lot about music and connects with most of my songlists.
She told me Tea for Two had been such a hit in London that teenagers would "go around singing it" and the girls were most affected.
"The girls, yes ... they just really loved it," Audrey said.
Later, when I thought about her comments, I wondered whose version had touched those hearts long ago. Audrey is too young to have been around when Tea for Two, with music by Vincent Youmans and lyrics by Irving Caesar, featured in the 1925 musical No, No, Nanette.
However, wikipedia says it was also sung by Doris Day and Gordon MacRae in the 1950 film, Tea for Two.
That resurgence seem to fit in Audrey's time frame. I am keen to hear more from Audrey, but many singers and instrumentalists have recorded Tea for Two.
Here's how it sounds with the sweetest of sweet voices, that of Doris Day.

Memories of a jazz fanatic
For more than three decades, the song has always reminded me of the eccentric Brisbane jazz identity, the late Sid Bromley, who developed a taste for the avant garde. 
When I visited Sid's St Lucia home in the 1980s, he pulled the stool up to his piano and pounded away so vigorously the ceiling rattled from the cacophony. There seemed to be no relationship with rhythm or harmony as he punished his visitor with an agonisingly long assault on the senses.
Suddenly, it stopped. Sid stood, saying, "Great tune, Tea for Two, virtually plays itself."
This anecdote always bring a wry grin to jazz survivors who knew Sid.
He was right. the song does "virtually play itself" but Audrey and I like it the way we think the creators intended :)

Sources consulted for this article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_for_Two_(song)
Image from Unreal TV.