Tea for Two (song)
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Tea for Two is the name of a song with music by Vincent Youmans and lyrics by Irving Caesar for the 1925 musical No, No, Nanette. The song is sung from the viewpoint of a lovestruck man, who plans the future with his new woman in mind. This was recomposed in 1928 in under an hour as the Tahiti-Trot by Dmitri Shostakovich, acting on a bet between him and the conductor Nikolai Malko. One famous interpretation of the song is Xavier Cugat's cha-cha-cha version, re-popularized in 2005 by adverts for McVitie's biscuits.