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Soubrette: Blossom Dearie Sings Broadway Hit Songs, 1960
Written by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz, 1948
Okay, first: what is a Blossom Dearie?! I thought it might be a band, but no, it's a singer, born Margrethe Blossom Dearie, with a high and girlish voice. Here, she sings a light novelty number about the smallest state, originally from a musical called "Inside U.S.A." It's a silly and fairly funny song, with tongue in cheek, deliberately dumb wordplay. "Grand canyons come from Colorada / Gold comes from Nevada / Divorces also do." By the time she gets to "Pencils come from Pencil-vania" and "Vests from Vest Virginia," however, you might start wishing Dietz had spent a little more time polishing up the lyrics.