Here We Are: Exit Music

Our first recorded taste of the final Sondheim musical

1962: The White House is occupied by the youngest president ever elected, an Irish Catholic by the name of John F. Kennedy. The year’s highest-charting single is Elvis Presley’s “Return to Sender,” a tale of relationship woe told using almost exclusively four chords. And on October 4, the first original cast recording to feature music and lyrics by Step…