Summertime

Verve, under Universal. The fish are jumping. The safety is a wish.

Verve released it with Louis Armstrong. Universal holds Verve. The opera around the lullaby is poor and violent. The lullaby itself is what a parent says anyway: hush, the morning will come, you are not alone in the room.

Sing it to a child. Do not wait for the living to be easy first.

The eight

Industry
9/10
She sings Gershwin as a promise, not a display.
Household
8/10
A child, hushed. The house is the whole point.
Piety
6/10
Don't you cry. It is close to a blessing.
Courage
5/10
The comfort is offered in a world that may not keep it.
Republic
4/10
A private mercy.
Temperance
8/10
Soft, and it knows the baby's weight.
Truth
6/10
The living is easy in the lyric. Fitzgerald does not sneer at the wish.
Stewardship
8/10
A song to sing over an actual child.

Live historicallyTonight, if there is a child in the house, this, quietly, instead of a screen.

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Chess · Universal Music Group

At Last

Chess, under Universal. The vow arrives. She does not play it cool.

Chess released it. Universal holds Chess now. The record is the sound of a person who has been looking and is done looking. It does not smirk.

Weddings use it because the sentence is the right size. Use it in the kitchen too, or it becomes a costume.

The eight

Industry
8/10
The voice waits, then spends everything on one line.
Household
8/10
One person, found. A house can start from that.
Piety
6/10
Thanks, said as if the finding were not an accident.
Courage
6/10
She admits she was lonely. That is harder than a boast.
Republic
4/10
Two people. The gladness is still a public fact.
Temperance
7/10
Joy, held in one song. It does not ask for a second night to mean it.
Truth
7/10
The loneliness before it is not erased.
Stewardship
8/10
A song a couple can mean on the day they stop dating and start.

Live historicallyPlay it once for the person you actually waited for, not for a room.