Lovelier

Luker and McGillin -- taking on middle-aged roles with lively dignity -- add star wattage to Loesser's enchanting "Lovelier Than Ever."

David Finkle: First Nighter: City Center Encores! Series Where's Charley? All-Singing, All-Dancing, All-Lovable David Finkle 2011

Luker and McGillin -- taking on middle-aged roles with lively dignity -- add star wattage to Loesser's enchanting "Lovelier Than Ever."

David Finkle: First Nighter: City Center Encores! Series Where's Charley? All-Singing, All-Dancing, All-Lovable David Finkle 2011

Luker and McGillin -- taking on middle-aged roles with lively dignity -- add star wattage to Loesser's enchanting "Lovelier Than Ever."

David Finkle: First Nighter: City Center Encores! Series Where's Charley? All-Singing, All-Dancing, All-Lovable David Finkle 2011

Luker and McGillin -- taking on middle-aged roles with lively dignity -- add star wattage to Loesser's enchanting "Lovelier Than Ever."

David Finkle: First Nighter: City Center Encores! Series Where's Charley? All-Singing, All-Dancing, All-Lovable David Finkle 2011

Ms. Mara's many credits included the film "Sands of Iwo Jima" (1949) with Wayne, "You Were Never Lovelier" (1942) with Rita Hayworth and "Angel in Exile" (1948).

Obituaries: Norman A. Graebner; David E. Apter; Adele Mara 2010

Then he picked up an acoustic guitar for “Lovelier Than Thou,” a pooka-shell-ready beach ballad.

In concert: B.o.B. at Merriweather Post Pavilion 2010

Then he picked up an acoustic guitar for "Lovelier Than Thou," a puka-shell-ready beach ballad.

Rapper and Singer B.o.B. performs at Merriweather Post Pavilion 2010

"Nothin 'on You," featuring Bruno Mars, has positively flooded radio, and for those who once loved it but have tired of hearing it, B.o. B. provides the sonically and thematically similar "Lovelier Than You," another sweet, sentimental relationship ode.

Album review: B.o.B., ""B.o.B. Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray" 2010

The song is "I'm Old Fashioned," and it's from the 1942 film "You Were Never Lovelier" with Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth.

Celebrating The Johnny Mercer Centennial 2009

Johnny Mercer wrote many better lyrics than "The Shorty George" from the Fred Astaire/Rita Hayworth movie You Were Never Lovelier (to Jerome Kern's music), but I've always thought the lyric was a particularly good example of how to do something very difficult: write the words for a "dance sensation" song, where we are introduced to some dance that everybody is supposedly doing (the Varsity Drag, Continental, Sluefoot, etc).

Lyrics: "The Shorty George" By Johnny Mercer Jaime J. Weinman 2006