Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year
Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year is a song that Frank Loesser wrote and released in 1944.
background
From the early 1940s onwards, Loesser wrote more often both music and the lyrics of his songs, such as “Have I Stayed Away Too Long?” In 1943. In the following year, the ballad “Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year” was created, which was used in the movie Christmas Holiday by Robert Siodmak found in which they by Deanna Durbin was presented.
The song is one of the few melancholy songs by Loesser; “However, he is not without hope. There is still no clear view of reality. Frank Loesser lyrics rarely float in the clouds. Usually they seem true, because they come close to the way people think and speak, and often follow on from introspection. ”The analogy of the coming spring with the return of happiness is“ not very innovative. What defines the Loesser song is the idea of the slow start of the season. ”When writing the song, Loesser used the phrase“ Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year ”to express“ the repression of intense feelings ”; it provides the poetic framework and allows the listener to imagine the protagonist's emotional world. The chorus of the song is:
Spring will be a little late this year
A little slow arriving in my lonely world over here
For you have left me
and where is our April of old?
You have left me and winter continues cold.
As if to say,
Spring will be a little slow to start
a little slow reviving,
That music it made in my heart.
Yes, time heals all things,
So I needn't cling to this fear,
It's merely that spring will be a little late this year.
Cover versions
In the same year the song was recorded by Sonny Dunham , Johnnie Johnston and Morton Downey (Decca 18607), in 1944/45 in Belgium by Buddy Bertinat , Rudy Bruder and Buddy Norton . This was followed by cover versions by Ralph Flanagan (with Harry Prime, 1949), Eddie Brunner / Polly Guggisberg , Sarah Vaughan (1953), Helen Merrill ( With Strings , 1955), Jeri Southern / Lennie Hayton , Ella Fitzgerald (1959), Lorez Alexandria , Anita O'Day (1962), Sathima Bea Benjamin (1963), Rita Reys (1965) and Julie London (1968). Instrumental versions of the song included a. Ralph Sharon , Stan Getz , Red Garland , Mundell Lowe , Ahmad Jamal , Rahsaan Roland Kirk , Buddy DeFranco ; in later years he was covered by Yehudi Menuhin & Stéphane Grappelli , Loren Schoenberg , Abbey Lincoln , Ellis Larkins , Benny Carter / Phil Woods , John Bunch , David Murray , Kitty Margolis , Jack Brokensha and Curtis Fuller . The discographer Tom Lord lists 98 versions of the song in the field of jazz .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Susan Loesser A Most Remarkable Fella: Frank Loesser and the Guys and Dolls in His Life . Hal Leonard, 2000, p. 61
- ↑ Thomas Laurence Riis: Frank Loesser , Yale University Press 2008, p. 38, ISBN 0-300-11051-0
- ↑ Susan Loesser A Most Remarkable Fella: Frank Loesser and the Guys and Dolls in His Life . Hal Leonard, 2000, p. 60
- ↑ Tom Lord: Jazz Discography (online)