Suddenly I’m so tired, I could just plotz. Writing my Newswithviews column sometimes does that to me.
So I found myself whistling this ancient tune, Glow Worm. It was on one of those red plastic records kids’ parents used to buy for them in the early 1950s. It must’ve made an impression on me, for me to be whistling it all these decades later.
Listen to the lyrics. Feel the innocence. Nice, isn’t it?
I couldn’t find quite the rendition that was on my record, but here are the Mills Brothers performing it on The Nat King Cole Show, 1957. I remember it as being sung by Rosemary Clooney, but couldn’t find it on youtube.