IT MIGHT AS WELL BE SPRING

Created on 16/04/2002
Latest update on 05/04/2024

Artist: Louanne Hogan
Author: Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein II
Year: 1945

Dubbing for Jeanne Crain as Margy in film State Fair. She's the daughter of a farming family visiting the annual Iowa State Fair, and although it's held in the fall (like most state fairs), Margy's got spring fever. State Fair was a remake of success film Margy (1933). In fact, Hollywood was more interested in filming Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma, still running strong on Broadway.

Covers:

1945:

Dick Haymes [also in State Fair]

1946:

Frank Sinatra

1946:

Sarah Vaughan

1952:

Stan Getz

1953:

Kenny Dorham

1953:

Clifford Brown

1954:

James Moody

1954:

Erroll Garner

1958:

Chet Baker

1958:

Johnny Mathis

1958:

Julie Andrews

1959:

Nina Simone

1960:

Billy Eckstine

1961:

Ella Fitzgerald

1961:

Connie Francis

1961:

Ike Quebec

1962:

Anita Gordon [dubbing for Pamela Tiffin in film remake]

1962:

Bill Evans

1964:

Astrud Gilberto

1967:

Lou Donaldson

1977:

Charles Mingus

1985:

Kiri Te Kanawa

1986:

Marlena Shaw

1995:

Brad Mehldau

1996:

John Pizzarelli

1997:

Jacky Terrasson & Cassandra Wilson

2002:

Stacey Kent

2004:

Harry Connick Jr.

2014:

Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden

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