May Time Songs

 

I never danced around the May Pole that has its origins during Roman times when they would worship Flora, the goddess of flowers. It spread, over time, across Europe where Germany celebrated the night before with a great bonfire. On May 1st, the men and women dance around wrapping ribbons around the pole commemorating the lengthening of days, the coming of summer and, l’amour toujour. Get your lustful emotions out and let’s come and play… enter the Barry White music. Over at Monday Music Moves Me, it’s all about songs from May. I hope you like my 3 songs….

1. NOW IS THE TIME FOR MAYING SUNG BY CHILDREN-1937

This is from the Jeannette MacDonald/ Nelson Eddy film, “Maytime” and this is a scene where you see the town celebrating May Day, May 1st, with kids singing this song. I’m not one to hear cute kids singing but this is ok and fits the theme. This song was actually composed by Thomas Morley back in 1595…pretty damn old.

2. THE LUSTFUL MONTH OF MAY SUNG BY JULIE ANDREWS-1960

This comes from the famous Lerner and Lowe musical, Camelot, that starred Julie Andrews as Lady Guinevere, Richard Burton as King Arthur and Robert Goulet and Sir Lancelot with Goulet becoming a major star due to his role in this famous musical. Sadly, when the musical was made, Vanessa Redgrave played Guinevere which just didn’t work for me. 

3. WHILE STROLLING THROUGH THE PARK ONE DAY SUNG BY BING CROSBY-1961

This song, I think, we’ve all heard it in one form or another often played in cartoons but it’s an old Vaudeville song written by Ed Haley from the Vaudeville team of the Haley Brothers. I actually wanted to find this song sung by the wonderful Stanley Holloway who was in many films and TV shows including voicing many animated shows, the most famous being Winnie the Pooh. Here, Bing Crosby give it a good show and I love that the 2nd verse is “in the month of May”. 

BONUS…

Yup, that’s Bugs Bunny! This is from 1941…

That’s All Folks!