Today is the final day of this month of ESPECIALY WONDERFUL SONGS and hardly any of us are now released from the LockDown, or even see a hope of it ever happening. What could have been a glorious relief for everybody, is now instead a very serious lesson.
I had always intended the last song in this series to be a very heavy emotional hitter, and now the requirement of it is even more poignant. This medley was recorded by a very young Barbra Streisand. Interestingly, the album is called "Release Me". Yes, please do. Why it was held up so long before being released I do not know, but almost always things come at the right time. I think the fact of her being so young really amps up the impact of the song's sentiment. Youth is fresher from the realm wherever they were before they were born, and the dreams of their life are still clear in their mind and not yet waylaid or discouraged as happens when people get older and become scathed by life.
The yearning power of this song with memory and beauty is so wonderful, and stepping into the "Heather On The Hill" increases the emotional stakes and the beauty of the images stimulated a craving for this to never end, but was almost too hard to handle, and then the return to Glocca Morra was an emotional killer that stimulated a long yearned for catharsis.
I don't happen to like that little bit at the end when Barbra says "Not bad", but I figured that the emotions were so heavy that she felt she needed to dilute them a bit. Me, I liked the emotion, that was the point of the song.
May the realities you ultimately make supersede your fondest dreams!
30. Medley name: How Are Things In Glocca Morra/Heather On The Hill (Lyrics)
Artist: Barbra Streisand
How Are Things In Glocca Morra: Music by: Burton Lane, Lyrics by: Yip Harburg
Heather On The Hill: Music by: Frederick Loewe, Lyrics by: Alan Jay Lerner
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