Is April the month with the most songs? Think "April Showers," "April in Paris," "Lost April," "April Love," "April in Portugal" and "I'll Remember April."
June has to be a close second, for what rhymes more easily than June? Except for May, but there are not a lot of May songs, apart from Hoagy Carmichael's lovely "One Morning in May." There are, though, the operetta "Maytime" and Jerome Kern's last and ill-fated musical, "Very Warm for May." Only twenty people turned up for the second night, despite the show having some of Kern's greatest songs, including "All the Things You Are."
Not many songs for the autumn months, except for songs about autumn ("Early Autumn," "Autumn Leaves," "Autumn in New York"). September has two memorable songs--"September Song" and "September in the Rain," and there is a little-known Johnny Mercer-Barry Manilow ballad called "When October Goes." But who ever wrote a song about November?
January sneaks in on the coat tails of June ("June in January"), but there's no February song, unless you count "My Funny Valentine."
April lovers, we leave you with a haunting line from Dorothy Parker's lyrics for "I Wished on the Moon." The singer wishes for "an April day that will not run away."
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