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Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most

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"'Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most'" (1955) is a popular song with lyrics by Fran Landesman, set to music by Tommy Wolf. The title is a jazz rendition of the opening line of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, "April is the cruellest month". The song describes how somebody feels sad and depressed despite all the good things associated with spring.

The song was featured in the 1959 Broadway musical 'The Nervous Set,' but was written in 1955 before this musical and was incorporated into it.

Collaboration



Tommy Wolf was a pianist, composer, arranger, and musical director who met Fran Landesman while she was sitting in the bar of the Crystal Palace, a night club in St. Louis. Wolf was on the bandstand playing. This experience inspired her to begin writing song lyrics and in 1952 Wolf began setting her lyrics to music. More LandesmanWolf collaborations followed, including the melodies for the songs for the Broadway musical 'The Nervous Set'.

Notable recordings



*Jackie Cain and Roy Kral 'Storyville Presents Jackie & Roy' (1955)

*Ella Fitzgerald 'Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!' (1961)

*Mark Murphy 'Rah!' (1961)

*Stan Getz 'Reflections' (1963)

*Julie London - 'Sophistcated Lady' (1962)

*Carmen McRae 'Bittersweet' (1964)

*Hampton Hawes and Martial Solal 'Key for Two' (1968)

*Blossom Dearie 'Winchester in Apple Blossom Time' (1977)

*Betty Carter 'The Audience with Betty Carter' (1979)

*Ian Shaw - 'A Ghost in Every Bar: The Lyrics of Fran Landesman' (Splash Point, 2012)

*Bette Midler - 'Some People's Lives' (1990)

*Norah Jones - 'Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most / Come Away With' (2022)

*Radka Toneff - 'Live in Hamburg' (1992,recorded in 1981)

References




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