Selected Spring standards and other songs of Spring

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Blue links are for Songbook feature pages

1884 — The Fountain in the Park (Ed Haley) — “While strolling through the park one day / In the merry merry month of May”

1921 — April Showers (m. Louis Silvers, w. B. G. “Buddy” DeSylva) — introduced by Al Jolson in the 1921 musical Bombo

1924 — Tell Her in Springtime (Irving Berlin) — introduced by Grace Moore in the 1924 Music Box Revue, where it was danced by Ula Sharon

1932 — April in Paris (m. Vernon Duke, w. E. Y. Harburg) — composed in 1932 for the Broadway musical, Walk A Little Faster

1933 — One Morning in May (m. Hoagy Carmichael, w. Mitchell Parish)

1935 — Paris in the Spring (m. Harry Revel, w. Mack Gordon)

1935 — March Winds and April Showers (Walter G. Samuels, Leonard Whitcup, Teddy Powell) Abe Lyman & His California Orchestra, vocal: Louis Rapp

1936 — I Got the Spring Fever Blues (Sue Werner, Kay Werner, Dave Bauer) — Chick Webb and his Orchestra, vocal: Ella Fitzgerald

1937 — Spring Cleaning — recorded by Fats Waller and his Rhythm

1938 — Spring Is Here (m. Richard Rodgers, w. Lorenz Hart) – introduced in the 1938 Rodgers & Hart musical I Married an Angel

1939 — Some Other Spring (m. Irene Kitchings, w. Arthur Herzog, Jr.) – jazz standard, Billie Holiday & her Orchestra (1939)

1939 — Love Turns Winter to Spring — m. Matt Dennis, w. Frank Killduff (Brigham Townsend) — Martha Tilton with Bobby Sherwood and his Orchestra in a 1941 Soundie of the same title; copyright date: 13 September 1939; also recorded by Stan Kenton, The Four Freshmen, June Christy

1941 — I’ll Remember April (m. Gene De Paul, w. Don Raye and Patricia “Pat” Johnston)

1941 — Soft As Spring (Alec Wilder) — in feature page on selected Alec Wilder songs

1943 — Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year (Frank Loesser)

1944 — April Snow (m. Sigmund Romberg, w. Dorothy Fields) — from the 1945 Broadway musical Up in Central Park

1944 — Suddenly It’s Spring (m. Jimmy Van Heusen, w. Johnny Burke)

1945 — It Might as Well Be Spring (m. Richard Rodgers, w. Oscar Hammerstein II) — from the musical film State Fair (1945)

1949 — Younger Than Springtime (m. Richard Rodgers, w. Oscar Hammerstein II) — introduced by William Tabbert in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific

1949 — It Happens Every Spring (m. Josef Myrow, w. Mack Gordon) — introduced in the 1949 film It Happens Every Spring — Recorded by Frank Sinatra, Margaret Whiting, Kay Starr, Art Lund and the Crew Chiefs, The Four Freshmen, Gogi Grant

1954 — Spring, Spring, Spring (m. Gene de Paul, w. Johnny Mercer) — introduced in the 1954 musical film Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

1955 — Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most (m. Thomas Wolf, Jr., w. Frances Landesman) Tommy Wolf and Fran Landesman

1956(?) — They Say It’s Spring (Bob Haymes, Marty Clark) — 1956 recording by Blossom Dearie released on her 1957 self-titled album, Verve Records ‎MG V-2037; album recorded 11-12 September 1956

1957(?) — So It’s Spring (Tommy Wolf, Wayne Arnold) — recording by Jackie & Roy with Bill Holman’s Orchestra released on the 1957 album Free and Easy!, ABC-Paramount ‎ABC-207; Carol Lawrence recording released on her 1962 album This Heart of Mine

1958 — Their Hearts Were Full of Spring (Bobby Troup)

1959 — There’ll Be Another Spring (Peggy Lee, Hubie Wheeler) — Peggy Lee and the George Shearing Quintet recorded live in Miami on 29 May 1959; released in 1959 on Beauty and the Beat!, Capitol Records T 1219 (Mono), ST 1219 (Stereo)

1967 — La Chanson de Maxence (m. Michel Legrand, w. Jacques Demy)

Jacques Perrin, dubbed by Jacques Revaux — 1967 film Les demoiselles de Rochefort

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“You Must Believe in Spring” (lyric: Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman), the English-language version of “La Chanson de Maxence,” was perhaps first performed by Cleo Laine in 1973.

Tony Bennett and Bill Evans — “You Must Believe in Spring,” from Together Again, 1976

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