Rodgers may offer an explanation: “Oscar was so moved by this song that just listening to it made him cry. He once explained that he never cried at sadness in the theatre, only at naïve happiness, and the idea of two bone-headed young people looking forward to nothing more than a ride in a surrey struck an emotional chord that affected him deeply.”19
As I write this, it is 8 days before Christmas and I have experienced my primary "naive happiness " moments from MIRACLE ON 34th STREET, WHITE CHRISTMAS, and SCROOGE (1951).
