Here’s a song from a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical called Allegro. It was the third collaboration between the two after Oklahoma and Carousel and it was “a very respectable flop,” as their encyclopedist Thomas Hischak put it. It did run on Broadway for nine months.

The song is sung from the point of view of proud parents wondering if their son will marry his girlfriend and return home to work with his father in the family medical practice after he finishes college.

So, the family thinks a man needs a woman. Thirty years later, Neil Young does too.

And George Harrison and the Beatles are even more direct.