I don't know if it was HER favorite song, but I love her description of how she prepared for "Glitter and Be Gay" in her memoir last year: She used self-hypnosis to calm her nerves, and unconsciously (she realized later) relied on her memory of listening as a teenager to a recording of Fay Bainter as Lady Macbeth opposite Orson Welles: “It was real yet highly emotive.”
