{"id":36325,"date":"2014-06-16T04:00:38","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T04:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/?p=36325"},"modified":"2019-08-08T23:48:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T23:48:12","slug":"tea-for-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/?p=36325","title":{"rendered":"Tea for Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A\u00a0song\u00a0from the 1924 musical\u00a0<i><a title=\"No, No, Nanette\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/No,_No,_Nanette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No, No, Nanette<\/a><\/i>\u00a0with music by\u00a0<a title=\"Vincent Youmans\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vincent_Youmans\">Vincent Youmans<\/a>\u00a0and lyrics by\u00a0<a title=\"Irving Caesar\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Irving_Caesar\">Irving Caesar<\/a>. It is a duet sung by Nanette and Tom (<a title=\"Louise Groody\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louise_Groody\">Louise Groody<\/a>\u00a0and Jack Barker) in Act II as they imagine their future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The stage musical\u00a0inspired <a title=\"David Butler (director)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Butler_(director)\">David Butler<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0musical film\u00a0in 1950, starring\u00a0<strong><a title=\"Doris Day\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doris_Day\">Doris Day<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0as Nanette Carter and\u00a0<a title=\"Gordon MacRae\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gordon_MacRae\">Gordon MacRae<\/a>\u00a0as Jimmy Smith.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00ab<strong>Tea for Two<\/strong>\u00bb soon became a\u00a0jazz standard\u00a0and was recorded by numerous bands and instrumentalists. Even\u00a0<strong>Dimitri Shostakovich<\/strong> orchestrated the piece in 1927, which he named<strong>\u00a0 &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PRq4ztEAjak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tahiti Trot Op. 16&#8242;\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D0MtzQDltr0\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Picture me upon your knee, with tea for two and two for tea<br \/>\nJust me for you and you for me alone<br \/>\nNobody near us to see us or hear us<br \/>\nNo friends or relations on weekend vacations<br \/>\nWe won&#8217;t have it known, dear, that we own a telephone, dear<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Day will break and I&#8217;ll awake and start to bake a sugar cake<br \/>\nFor you to take for all the boys to see<br \/>\nWe will raise a family, a boy for you and a girl for me<br \/>\nCan&#8217;t you see how happy we would be<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QZ04ud3cSwc\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u2191 \u00a0Oscar Peterson<\/strong> &#8212;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QZ04ud3cSwc#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">0:00<\/a>\u00a0 \/ \u00a0<strong>Johnny Costa<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QZ04ud3cSwc#\">3:02<\/a>\u00a0 \/ \u00a0<strong>Art Tatum<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QZ04ud3cSwc#\">9:40<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6ed1QFUV1Cw\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6 id=\"watch-headline-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Tommy Dorsey Orchestra \u2191\u00a0\u00a0\u266a Tea for two cha cha \u266a \u00a0[1958]<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7tRz4Z7q-Lk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"yt watch-title-container\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span id=\"eow-title\" class=\"watch-title \" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"AQUI Y AJAZZ, Dominique Eade &amp; Ira Coleman &quot;Tea For Two&quot;\">Dominique Eade &amp; Ira Coleman \u00a0\u00a0\u2191 \u00a0<\/span>[1997]<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u25ca\u2192 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9VXjZu_9KmY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pink Martini<\/a>\u00a0 \u21d0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0[2007]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TErBXGGmPfw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Dimitri Shostakovich \u00a0\u2191 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PRq4ztEAjak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tahiti Trot Op. 16 <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A song from the 1924 musical No, No, Nanette with music by Vincent Youmans and lyrics by Irving Caesar. It is a duet sung by Nanette and Tom (Louise Groody and Jack Barker) in Act II as they imagine their future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The stage musical inspired David Butler&#8216;s musical film in 1950, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":36342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[102,313],"class_list":["post-36325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-songs","tag-lyrics","tag-america","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36325"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50054,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36325\/revisions\/50054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}