Marry Me a Little - 1969 Harry Nilsson

Tresceibas wrote on July 20, 2009

From the biography "Steven Sondheim: A Life," by Meryle Secrest:

"There was Hal Prince's wife, Judy, whom Sondheim has known since she was an adolescent, whose gift of the riposte is well known, and whom he considers a brilliant, if unpublished, writer, like Mary Ann Madden. Peter Stone, a friend of them both, called her "very complicated, terribly intelligent and very wry. Steve and Judy were very symbiotic for a long time; he almost could not function without her." In fact he completed a song for her called "Marry Me a Little," which he had written for Company. Sondheim said, "What happened was, I was playing it and I told Hal that I had started this song but thought I should not finish it" for reasons of the plot. "He said, 'I agree with you, it's too knowing,' but she was listening outside the door. She came in later and said, 'I don't care whether it fits or not, I just think it's fabulous.'" So when he was trying to decide on a Christmas gift for her, he thought of the song, finished it, had Harry Nilsson record it, and presented it to her."

This identifies the "Judy" sung to toward the end.

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