I clicked on this to see where a song I'd performed hundreds of times as jazz player, and occasionally in 'pops' concerts as a professional orchestral musician, came from, because I've never liked it, though I wanted to. I even did an arrangement of it for jazz choir when I was in high-school to come to terms with dislike of this jazz standard and its weak meandering melodic portamento. From a melodic perspective, it simply overuses a single device: scalar or stepwise motion for both the verse and the chorus. Its just too much of a muchness. As a result, its sounds unremittingly...drunk and intoxicated 'by' itself (less flattering), which clearly is experienced by many as being 'dreamy' . I prefer songs with more melodic gravitas, melodies with surprises that go somewhere. For instance...just to pull a couple out of a hat, Guy Woods 1953, My One And Only Love, kzitem.info/news/bejne/132Lp5hooWSndZwsi=AkkXSvjfLKfqymA9 has a melody that is far ranging, or Richard Rogers, This Nearly Was Mine, kzitem.info/news/bejne/0qCGu4lvg52im3Ysi=cN0BIzgv6Ka2_iPk&t=76, which is possibly unfair, because Rogers was not only one of the greatest melodist of all time, but a great musical craftsman.
@David-uh8bx
2 ай бұрын
It looks like Dick Foran is riding Smoke, the palomino he rode in his Warner Brothers series and several other westerns.
@dobleanchorecords
3 ай бұрын
Aleays thought this song was original from Bobby Darrin...thanks for posting. Which year was this movie released? Looks like mid to late 40s? Rgds.
@d.arnoldmarshall2100
3 ай бұрын
He rarely sings in movies so it's really wonderful to hear his voice
@dc10driver1
4 ай бұрын
Joan Merrill had the most amazing voice I have ever heard. Her range, her deep power... you can't teach that. It's a gift. I first heard her while listening to an Old Time Radio show, the Charlie McCarthy show with Edgar Bergen where she was the featured vocalist. Once I heard that voice, I began a search to hear more. Thankfully you can hear more of Joan as the Internet Archive has a bunch of those shows, and her recordings.
@ronsmith6729
4 ай бұрын
Absolutely the very best.
@pasindudevinda
5 ай бұрын
Is this the original version? Anyone reply please…
@johnmatelski6413
5 ай бұрын
Yes! To my knowledge this is the OG. It's another channel of mine, I was trying to find the earliest/original versions songs that have become jazz standards that everyone learning jazz knows and get called at jam sessions. I didn't get too far, just another you , and I'll remember april. I had stella by starlight for a while but I think it got removed for copyright b/c it is a bit newer.
@pasindudevinda
5 ай бұрын
@@johnmatelski6413Ahh.. Thank you
@RichardGardee-eq9qi
6 ай бұрын
NAT Cole, Did good version 👠❣️🪞👀🕯️🍿
@nikolaigrut
7 ай бұрын
Awesome melody, great words!
@johnrobin8799
7 ай бұрын
1:36 the song is so beautiful that it causes the horses to love each other
@davidmiller4078
8 ай бұрын
Wonderful no wonder the song has been covered so much beautiful
@johncarroll1403
8 ай бұрын
Like so many that have commented here, I've always known this song as a jazz, or at least a bit jazzy piece. I discovered this original version about a month ago, thanks to The Real Changes! Seriously, thank you sooooo much for posting this! It is harmonic and choral elegance of the first order. My Mom was about to begin singing with the Ken Darby Singers back in the late 50's, but then she met my Dad and that was that. The choral arrangement reminds me very much of pieces the Ken Darby Singers sang back in the day. I've sung choral music my whole life, (in my blood) and this is, as someone else said, so unashamedly romantic - how refreshing! It is stunning. I can't stop listening to it. I'm obsessed!
@jmrodas9
8 ай бұрын
Beautiful song, I had heard in instrumental version long ago, and liked it, What is says is very good for old people like me, there are so many things, that trouble us like diseases, but we remember April, when we were young, when we had an energy we no longer have, when we met our life mate, and despite every old age problems, we smile, remembering the spring or our lives.
@Califokie12
10 ай бұрын
She made me nervous too…now I’m smoking, she’s smoking hot, we’re all smoking. Great song. Someone tell me why it can’t still be this amazing.
@scotnick59
10 ай бұрын
Dick Foran sang this with his own voice?....Terrific!: What an uncommonly beautiful song this is!
@vincentdesapio
Жыл бұрын
Beautiful version by Dick Foran, a singing cowboy from Flemington, New Jersey.
@timothymeenan4995
Жыл бұрын
how very true patricia there never will be another you! what a great 1940's rendition of this song! tim m
@jmrodas9
Жыл бұрын
¡Que linda canción! Es una de las mejores que he escuchado. "recordaré abril", es abril un mes primaveral, en el que brotan las flores y se escucha el canto de los pájaros. La canción dice que no teme la llegada de las tristezas de otoño, pues recordará abril y a su amante. Muy buena en realidad, cuando estamos viejos, recordamos la juventud, y nos alegramos.
@josephalexandergemmell9979
Ай бұрын
de acuerdo!
@jmrodas9
Жыл бұрын
Nice song, I was born in April, a spring month. The month itself is very much waited as the cold of winter is finally over, normally. And flowers bloom, and everywhere one can hear birds singing. 😀
@LuisFlores-yg8vw
Жыл бұрын
Lindo recuerdo de las películas de Abbot y Costello
@austntexan
Жыл бұрын
Ha ha she lights his cigarette, so great. That gown is incredible. Great performance.
@RichardGardee-eq9qi
6 ай бұрын
❤those WERE the DAYS ❤❤❤❤😮
@candy9986
Жыл бұрын
1942 Wartime song 💔
@terrybrocklehurst5907
Жыл бұрын
Boz Scaggs did this beautifully. My favorite.
@MarkBlackburnWPG
Жыл бұрын
I'LL REMEMBER APRIL - 'Cowboy' Dick Foran (1942) At the height of WWII - when most every movie was in black & white - there was an Abbott & Costello comedy that needed a pretty tune - for a dude ranch cowboy to sing to his girl on a 'midnight ride.' Gene de Paul, a gifted composer who would later write the Academy Award winning 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers' with Johnny Mercer, wrote the haunting melody - to words composed by two of his friends (lyricists who would never be heard-from again). If you could only write one good song during WWII, why not a gem like this one; it's been treasured by jazz artists ever since. Simply put, it's still one of the greatest songs in the history of popular music. Years ago I remember seeing a three-minute segment of that comedy from exactly 80 years ago - when the song is introduced on a “moonlight mountain ride” from a nearby horse ranch. I've yet to see the film (TCM doesn't feature much Abbott & Costello among its "classics") but for reasons I can't put into words, I find this deeply affecting. And yes, my favorite version of I'LL REMEMBER APRIL. The intuitive genius of KZitem sent this my way again tonight along with some perfect comments from kindred spirits like these: DAVINDAIR (3 years ago) “This tune is one of the glories of the American songbook with its ravishing, dreamy melody line. No wonder every jazz artist of note recorded it.And then there's Dick Foran's lilting, lullaby voice: a sound like no other. Thanks for this priceless upload. ANTHONY WILLIAMS (1 year ago) I have been playing this beautiful song on guitar in various jazz groups for more than sixty years, without knowing where the song came from, and having just stumbled upon this upload, I feel humbled by the beauty and unashamed sentimentality of the romance from which it was first sung. This version is without doubt the best of the best renditions, and I think that I have heard them all. Thank You. ---- Thanks The Real Changes for sharing. Celebrated elsewhere [search] " Great Melody, Great Lyric, Great Rendition, Songwriting Workshop, Harmony Central "
@jantjebee
Жыл бұрын
for those of you who are wondering about what this movie is and who is singing it.. Wikipedia is always to our rescue! There Will Never Be Another You" is a popular song with music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Mack Gordon that was written for the Twentieth Century Fox musical Iceland (1942) starring Sonja Henie and John Payne. The songs in the film featured Joan Merrill accompanied by Sammy Kaye and His Orchestra. The song was published in 1942
@DavidVictor18
Жыл бұрын
Who is this?
@a.nobodys.nobody
6 ай бұрын
Sonja Hennie?
@surfgod509
Жыл бұрын
Even the horses 💋 kiss, one of the most romantic moments in motion pictures history... beautiful cinema and history, Vocals, pure Angelic...
@howardpeterbrody4955
Жыл бұрын
From that well known movie, My Life With Sheep..."There will be never be anothe ewe".
@danielrivera9788
Жыл бұрын
Wow! I’d heard Nat King Cole & Chet Baker… but never this one till now!
@anthonywheeler3048
Жыл бұрын
This is the 1st version that I have heard that was not jazzy. I love it by George Shearing and Charlie Parker but this version is beautiful. It's officially my favorite version. Tremendous lyrics.
@hazelwray4184
Жыл бұрын
Caterina Velente and Chet Baker, is a beautifully jazzy version with a youthful 1950s vibe. However, I appreciate what you're saying.
@dr37sam
2 жыл бұрын
I’ll Remember April and There Will Never Be Another You are the best.
@howieh2649
2 жыл бұрын
kool
@sergiop9885
2 жыл бұрын
Im from Spain.. Its so hard talkin about english language, specially if you are Spanish... Was born at Spain... All english I know i have Learned at college,,,,,, never in my life been to USA but really dont know lately I dream with this beautiful songs.... The real cinema classics from 50s and 60s,,,,, but ITS ONLY IN MY DREAMS,,,,, REALLY NEVER CAN VISTING USA IN MY WHOLE LIFE.... MANY MILES AWAY FROM HERE FROM SOUTH OF SPAIN GREETINGS!!
@KimchiSpringRoll
2 жыл бұрын
I can only imagine how awkward and uncomfortable it would be to have someone sing to me like that while lighting my smoke.
@jimdixon3470
2 жыл бұрын
2:04 Moving his hands to clutch her tighter as he sings "your lips were warm"...this was hubba-hubba for the early 1940s! (Thought the pre-Hays code early 1930s certainly went a lot further.) It's still a nice directorial touch.
@tuxguys
2 жыл бұрын
How about that... The original version of this great tune... ...and it's from an Abbot & Costello movie. Music by Gene de Paul, and lyrics by Patricia Johnston and Don Raye. (I had no idea Dick Foran could even sing, let alone this well, as the only other thing I have ever seen him in is "The Mummy's Hand.") I believe that the visual effect used here is called "day-for-night," and even though this film is in black and white, the cinematography makes this sequence positively glow. Absolutely lovely.
@cp2410
2 жыл бұрын
Who's the singer and what movie is it from? When the singer walks toward the audience, the 2 guys are in uniform so I guess the film was made during World War II.
@Anastas1786
2 жыл бұрын
_Iceland,_ 1942. The singer is Adele Wynn, played by Joan Merrill.
@howardsamara9873
10 ай бұрын
Iceland, I am with you in more ways than one. Great song Don good rendition I’ll probably play a lot in the future. By the way, the future is now.
@kimberlymurray5293
2 жыл бұрын
Love this song! I'm a May baby, but my dad and my oldest brother were both born in April. They still live in my heart every day. Happy Birthday, my guys! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@surfgod509
2 жыл бұрын
This melodie practically brings tears to my 👀 eyes, it's truly a beautiful piece of history..
@ZJhontu1
2 жыл бұрын
In this world today… me and my honey do all the good ol things. Jack Benny, George n Gracie, Dragnet, the invaders, father knows best… all the good old stuff. A time when people had respect. For themselves, that is. I’ll remember April. 1969.
@nickcaches7069
2 жыл бұрын
Sadly, A beautiful song lost in history.
@scotnick59
10 ай бұрын
It's very unusually beatiful, yes!
@story_by_nila
2 жыл бұрын
Prefer the sinatra version
@DPS-BCLA
Жыл бұрын
Sinatra's (on the Point Of No Return album) is the closest I've heard to this original. Axel Stordahl clearly referred to the original to craft his arrangement for Sinatra.
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