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That graceful hummability, in songs like “I Won’t Send Roses” and “Time Heals Everything,” is the reason people have kept hoping for some way to make “Mack & Mabel” work.

From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2020

The music may be so innocuous as to resist hummability, but the lyrics are sharp, the premise is wacky and freeing, the actors are game and self-lampooning, and somehow this made it to network television.

From Slate • Jan. 2, 2015

Kern's songs became standards on their own sophisticated hummability.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nevertheless, Markoe shows a gift for hummability in tongue-in-cheek ballads, including Liverpool Sunset and Good Things Come, and for counterpoint in Quartet Agonistes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lloyd Webber's music, as usual, has the lush extravagance and candy-box prettiness of Puccini, with themes repeated often enough to ensure their hummability.

From Time Magazine Archive