Magnificent day today! After my morning doctor’s appointment I had the impish inclination to  play hooky and go gamboling through Union Square Park, so elated was I at the conjurings of spring.

It brought to mind the Shakespearean ditty, “It Was a Lover and his Lass,” and a favorite song I performed in a cabaret concert many years ago, “Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most.”

Here is a rendering  of that tune by perhaps my favorite singer of all time, the late Sarah Vaughan: