This lovely tune is from the short-lived 1951 musical Flahooley. Many of the changes on the chart are my reharms.
Lyricist E. Y. Harburg intended the show as a political statement against McCarthyism, although Here's to Your Illusions is an apolitical love song.
Stevie Holland does a touching rendition of it on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llrfd-kwpPQ
Here's to Your Illusions-Rev JE - Fain and Harburg
Cheers,
Jer
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