Tea is the most popular beverage in Britain, and Americans drink coffee, so naturally this standard about Blighty's national drink was penned by... two Americans. "Tea For Two" was written for the comedy musical No, No, Nanette by composer Vincent Youmans and lyricist Irving Caesar. Unleashed on the world in 1924, it has been widely recorded including by Doris Day in the 1950 production Tea For Two.
In 1958, Tommy Dorsey hit #7 in the US with his instrumental adaptation "Tea For Two Cha Cha." Nino Tempo & April Stevens reached #56 with a more traditional version of the song in 1964.
According to the Glasgow Daily Record, when the Scottish serial killer Peter Manuel was executed on July 11, 1958, he walked calmly to the gallows to the strains of "Tea For Two," and was then hanged. His last words were, "Turn up the radio and I'll go quietly."
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