Artist: Evelyn Hoey
Author: Vernon Duke/Yip Harburg
Year: 1932
In revue Walk A Little Faster. Paris was an impossible dream in the midst of the great Depression. Even lyricist Yip Harburg never been there, let alone in April. Vernon Duke also wrote Autumn In New York and I Can't Get Started (see there).
Covers:
Marian Chase [first recording]
Freddy Martin [top 5 US]
Count Basie [arrangement: Wild Bill Davis; vocal: Ella Fitzgerald]
Doris Day [in film April In Paris]
Bob Hope [in film Paris Holiday]
Tielman Brothers [instrumental]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)