How To Succeed In Business Without Trying - "Been A Long Day"

This is the song I tried to post yesterday:


How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying is my favorite musical because it's a satire of 1960s corporate America.  It's pretty much the comedy version of Mad Men.  And in an awesome coincidence, Robert Morse, who played Bert Cooper on Mad Men, played the lead role of J. Pierpont Finch in the 1967 film version of the movie!  Here's a clip of the song from the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH0iZnbGV5A


I also loved it because my high school performing arts dept. performed it when I was a senior, and then I got to see it on Broadway with Matthew Broderick, who stars in the video below.  I LOVE him.  It was 1995, but I'm thrilled to have found that someone in the audience managed to record this performance, pre-smart phones!


And, in another awesome coincidence, the actress who played the female lead, Rosemary, is a pre-super-famous Megan Mullally.  She, of course, went on to play Karen on Will & Grace, and Tammy 2 on Parks & Rec, and loads of other great roles.  She is unbelievably talented, and we share a birthday, and I adore her.


"Been A Long Day" is about the silly small talk coworkers engage in, in this case because they have a crush on each other and don't know what to say.  I sing it to myself a lot whenever I have a long workday.  It works amazingly well at lifting my spirits.


Enjoy!


#YearlongMixtape
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNI6XpBeuLo