The holiday is here.

It’s cool to dismiss Valentine’s Day as just another Hallmark high-mark on the calendar. Some hate the 14th of February outright. But why? Leave the date alone. It did nothing to hurt you. You say you’ve got no date? You say you’ve no bouquet of flowers? Then go out and find somebody. Fix it. Or better yet, send some flowers of your own. No boyfriend? No girlfriend? Send something lovely to your mom. Call your dad.

Worse comes to worse, forget the proper name of the holiday and just partake of the candy that will inevitably swing within your reach before the end of the day. Call it “Gimme Candy Day.”

Anyway … moving on. Let’s listen to another take on our musical theme of the week.

“I’m still a real musical theater person,” (Rickie Lee) Jones says. “I never separated the song from the text. It was natural to me that you would turn and sing the song. I never felt odd about that.”*

Rickie Lee Jones – “My Funny Valentine (Live)”

Jones recorded “My Funny Valentine” for 1983’s Girl At Her Volcano, but this is a live take from later on in her career. This track can be found on last year’s aptly-named retrospective compilation, The Duchess Of Coolsville.