Bless My Homeland Security Forever

By Zamboni

Fifty years ago today, The Sound of Music premiered. The film employed a ton of talent (director Robert Wise, an editor of Citizen Kane, first among equals, we'd say). But what we cats keep thinking is, damn! — what a brilliant composer Richard Rodgers was.

Here is one of the songs that was not sung in the original TSOM stage production, but which Rodgers contributed to the film after lyricist Oscar Hammerstein had died. Audra McDonald proves how timeless Rodgers's music really is (even if Rodgers himself wasn't a very nice person). It all makes us cats PURR.