Songs About Spring Can Be Happy or Sad

Most of these songs have been around a long time but are still popular today.Transcript of radio broadcast:
23 March 2008

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Here is one example, "It Might as Well Be Spring." Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein wrote the song for the movie "State Fair" in nineteen forty-five. Frank Sinatra sings about having "spring fever." This is not a real sickness. It is a feeling of restlessness or excitement brought on by the coming of spring.


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