This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie offers a song about words.

Sixty-five years ago, songwriter Bart Howard wanted to write a sassy little tune about how people seldom say what they mean, and that’s why he called it “In Other Words.”

But then Bart learned his own lesson about other words. When Kaye Ballard brought the song to the radio that year, fans didn’t call in by its name. Instead, when they phoned up their favorite disc jockey and ask to hear this cool little melody, they used the song’s evocative, highly poetic opening line.

When the same thing kept happening all across the country, the record company had to re-release the song under the title that the public had chosen for it.

The Flood’s been doing the song for more than a decade now. Here, from last night’s rehearsal, Michelle takes us on a favorite journey. In other words, here’s “Fly Me to the Moon.” Click to hear the tune.