Happy Mothers Day -- Belated Bonus Edition

I was going to post this on Mothers Day, but the video I was trying to embed -- for reasons which I'll explain below -- wouldn't work.  And try as I might, I just couldn't get it embedded.  However, yesterday, I figured out a way to get it done!  And rather than wait a whole year for next Mothers Day, I decided to post it today, as a bonus of sorts.  Because I've been trying for years to get this posted.  And now, I can.  O huzzah!

This is a terrific song written for the original Broadway production of Bye Bye Birdie, but never saw the light of day.  The problem was that Kay Medford, the actress hired as the guilt-inducing mother of Albert (the character played by Dick Van Dyke), was a wonderful performer but couldn't sing, so they cut the song.  And the same thing happened for the movie version with Maureen Stapleton.  However years later when the did the remake for television in 1995, Tyne Daly had starred on Broadway in the musical Gypsy, and sang very well -- and was a big TV name, having starred for a long time in the series Cagney and Lacey.  So, the song was put back in, not only because it was so good, but also I'm sure to give the actress more to do which would attract her to the part.  And it's since been put back in the official version of the stage show where it is now performed in college, high school and community theater productions -- "A Mother Doesn't Matter Anymore." 

Alas, there is no video of the TV movie scene available on YouTube.  So, for years I only posted the audio recording.  And also some community theater videos -- but those weren't what was needed, not just for the performances (which were fine, but not Tyne Daly -- but even more, didn't have the great, whimsical orchestration of the TV film which I dearly love.  It has a sort of honky-tonk feel to it, and a wonderful, albeit brief use of a clarinet solo as counterpoint). ​

But good news!  Though there is still no video of the scene on YouTube, the TV movie got repeated on television couple months ago -- something that is very rare, in fact I don't believe I've seen it in 30 years.  However, if I recall correctly, TCM was airing a day filled with very good TV movies.  So, I recorded a video of the song on my mobile phone.  The quality isn't A+, but I think it's pretty good and a joy to finally include with this years Mothers Day tributes, however belated.  In this TV production, Tyne Daly sings it her son played here by Jason Alexander.  

The problem I had posting it is because the file size was too big for the Weebly platform (that runs this website) to handle.  It kept freezing halfway through the upload process.  But I found online software that will compress a video's size.  The quality is slightly degraded, but I checked it out, and it looks pretty close to what I originally recorded.

And so, finally, after all this time -- and a five-day added delay -- here 'tis.