So do I.

“I’ve Still Got My Health” Cole Porter, Panama Hattie

“When I give a tea
Lucius Beebe ain’t there.”

I stand corrected so many times per day that my chiropodist has advised me to try sitting corrected.

Maria’s an unsophisticated girl. Tulsa is steeped in show biz (“Astaire bit!”) and Brummel was a more familiar name then than he is now. There was a Broadway play about him (by Clyde Fitch!) and Barrymore played him on film. It never surprised me that Tulsa made the reference.

You have my sympathy, Bebe. I too miss the dear dead days when I could pick up a sock without reaping the whirlwind.

Congratulations, Jack and Josh! I’m 3/4 of the way through and loving it.

(A Class Act ran 105 which took “Better” and “Self Portrait” out of the running.)

I saw The Grand Tour when I was in college. “You I Like” was the song that (finally) won me over.

“I Wouldn’t Bet One Penny” from Donnybrook.

Here's a bit more of Coward's lyric. If you remain stubbornly certain that Coward didn't mean the word gay to imply anything about the singers' sexuality, I'll tamper no further with the delicate fruit of that conviction. But I have some possibly upsetting news for you about Paul Lynde.

[Citation above, btw, from Masquerade, The Lives of Noel Coward by Oliver Soden.]

I probably read too much into it, as did that silly old queen, the OED.

Actually, Noel Coward beats Cole by more than a decade. Bitter Sweet, a hit in London, but not on Broadway, ran in the 1929-1930 season. The super swishy young queens who sing “Green Carnation” boast that they’re “the reason for the 90s being gay.”

The first one that comes to mind for me is “Farming” from Let’s Face It, but I suspect there’s an earlier one than that.