Lazy Afternoon is a show tune written by Jerome Moross and John La Touche for the 1954 Broadway musical The Golden Apple. In the original production it was sung by Polly Bergen, and it appears on the show’s 1954 cast recording. Since then it has become a widely covered jazz standard, with notable album appearances such as Barbra Streisand’s Lazy Afternoon (1975) and Regina Belle’s Lazy Afternoon (2004), along with instrumental takes on Harold Land’s A Lazy Afternoon (1995), Shirley Horn’s A Lazy Afternoon (1979), and Jason Wilber’s Lazy Afternoon (2006). The song blends show tune and jazz influences and paints a tranquil, sunlit scene of a couple spending a lazy afternoon.
