Now here’s a funny thing — funny-peculiar, not funny-haha.

I have been watching the British TV adaptions of P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves & Wooster stories. At 2m27s into Series 4, Episode 1, Part 2, Bertie and two reprobate cousins are in a New York nightclub. (This is supposed to be around 1930.) A female singer is on stage singing the following:

Time without end
I wait for you
This date for you
Time without end
Calendars don’t matter,
Clocks can lose their charm;
My diary says,
That empty stock’s not worth a darn
I love you and I’ll need you
Till the end of time
But when will the pendulum swing
Time without end
Without a friend
Without I’ll spend
Time without end
With you

It’s a lovely song — well, it is if, like me, you are a sucker for those smoky, sophisticated lounge ballads of the thirties and forties.

What’s funny is, this song seems to be unknown to Google. All I can turn up is a Russian website for Wodehouse fans. They don’t tell me who wrote it, or where I can get a recording. It’s also unknown to eMusic, usually reliable for obscure stuff.

I suppose it’s possible that the producers of the TV series hired in a songwriter, but why would they do that, with ten thousand prêt à chanter songs of the period to choose from?

Anyone know anything about this? Mark Steyn’s our show-tunes wallah — any idea, Mark? Or anyone?