Make Someone Happy (Live at Village Vanguard, NYC - September 26, 2009)

I opened in Funny Girl in March 1963 and fell in love with the composer of that show, Jule Styne

He was brilliant

He was funny

And he was very kind to me

Anyway, his wife Maggie Styne...

Maggie where are you? (Here)

Wow

Hi Maggie, we're glad you could make it here

...And she is sitting with Phyllis Newman who won the Tony over me

For Subways Are for Sleeping I did Miss Mermelstein

And Phyllis' husband was the wonderful lyricist Adolph Green

With Betty Comden wrote this nеxt song with Jule for their Broadway Show Do Re Mi

I lovе the song

Make someone happy

Make just one someone happy

Make just one heart the heart you sing to

One smile that cheers you

One face that lights when it nears you

One man you're everything to

Fame, if you win it

Comes and goes in a minute

Where's the real stuff in life to cling to?

Love is the answer

Someone to love is the answer

Once you've found him

Build your world around him

And make someone happy

Make just one someone happy

And you will be happy too

I titled my new album Love is the answer

Because one of the nice things about getting older

Is that you not only learn to give love

But you learn to receive it and then you can give back even more

I'm not only talking about romantic love but love between all kinds of people

Love is the answer

Someone to love is the answer

Once you found him

Build your world around him

And make someone happy

Make just one someone happy

And you will be happy too

Oh, you will be so happy too

I promise, look at you all, look at that

Thank you

Thank you, thank you