It's funny about the timing of requests for certain songs. We'll go on for a long time, and then we'll get a number of requests. This one was discussed last month. It's a hard one to find by title, because the title isn't obvious and it has been called many things on many recordings.
The only recording I've heard is the one by the Kingston Trio. I did find a Blossom Dearie recording of the song on CD here (click)- and what she calls the song is "The Ballad of the Shape of Things." I believe the actual title is "The Shape of Things," written by Sheldon Harnick in 1956. Harnick is better-known for Fiddler on the Roof.
I've put crosslinks above to the Digital Tradition entry and all the threads we have on the song.
I'd love to hear Blossom Dearie sing this song, but maybe just once. I found a site that called her a "conversational singer," and I think the term is apt. She had great comic timing, but I don't like to listen to her too many times. According to the All Music Guide, Blossom Dearie was born in 1926 and continued to perform into the 1980's.
-Joe Offer-