Happy Valentine's Day

Continuing our gaggle of lesser-known love songs, we now have a fun song, "Love is the Reason" from the 1951 musical A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, with a score by Arthur Schwartz and the wonderful Dorothy Fields.  It's performed by the also-wonderful Shirley Booth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcIlytJpIf4

And we'll add in another song, the comedy number "I Love You," this from Little Me, a show that got 10 Tony nominations in 1962, including one for Sid Caesar as Best Actor who played eight different roles in the show and sings the number here, along with Virginia Martin.  The score is by Cy Coleman and lyricist Carolyn Leigh (who wrote several of the lyrics in Peter Pan).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1Iyjk7s1As