April is kind of a big deal.
1. T.S. Elliott wrote that it's "the cruelest month."
2. For more than 100 years, we've been singing about the April showers that come our way and bring the flowers that bloom in May.
3. Twenty years ago, Sugarland also sang about "April Showers" and reassured us "we've seen rain before."
4. Stevie Wonder mentioned that April rain in "I Just Called to Say I Love You."
5. Pat Boone crooned about "April Love."
6. Simon & Garfunkle's "April Come She Will" always annoyed me. I don't know why.
7. In a 1952 movie, Doris Day found romance in "April in Paris."
8. Count Basie and Ella Fitzgerald performed a legendary duet of "April in Paris," too.
9. Three Dog Night sang about "pieces of April on a morning in May."
10. Sinatra sang he'd "Always Remember April."
11. Women searched for happiness in the book The Enchanted April.
12. V.C. Andrews began her "Shadows" series with April Shadows.
13. Captain Robert April commanded the Enterprise in an animated Star Trek series.
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April is kind of a big deal.
ReplyDeleteElliott may have been on to something. We used to sing a little song that went "April showers bring May flowers that we like to pick. Hear the raindrops on the roof top you can hear them, drip drop drip drop drip!" I remember that from elementary school.
ReplyDeleteT.S. Elliot was right. April is a big tease, giving us a taste of Spring and then yanking it out from under us. Repeatedly.
ReplyDeleteOne of the jokes my clients at work love me to tell them is "April showers bring May flowers, but what to Mayflowers bring? Answer: Pilgrims!"
T.S. Elliott understood Maine weather, definitely!
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