Happy New Year 2025

​A few years back, I was trying to think of a New Year song for the year ahead -- as opposed to one for New Year's Eve, like "Auld Lang Syne" and many others -- and while I was sure there was one out there or several, none quickly came to mind.  The best I could come up with on the spur of the moment for a new year (others popped in later) was this song from British songwriter/entertainers Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, who I've often noted here I dearly love, in their stage revue (or as they called it, an after-dinner farrago...) At the Drop of a Hat.  This is "A Song of the Weather."

That's the bearded Michael Flanders who's the lyricist and lead singer, with composer Donald Swann at the piano and singing backup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qV-VO5eXOA