I'll Remember April

~ from the 1942 Western Musical Comedy "Ride 'em Cowboy"

Music by Gene DePaul and lyrics by Patricia Johnston, and Don Raye

Leeds Music Corp. ASCAP

With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra

and The Ray Charles Singers

Produced by Hugo & Luigi

Recorded in Webster Hall, New York City

Recording Engineer: Bob Simpson

Recording Time 3:00

Recorded June 21st, 1962 ~ Matrix No. N5PW-3018 Take 6

Album issue: RCA-LP12 "By Request" LSP-2567 STEREO SEPTEMBER 1962

For a few brief minutes, "I'll Remember April" was an oasis of sanity in the madness of the 1942 Abbott and Costello film "Ride 'Em Cowboy." Dick Foran, the handsome square-jawed hero on the Universal set, sang the song in it's film debut. For a long time it remained a love song, but then it was discovered by the jazz players, who loved it's chord structure and found it a perfect vehicle for endless improvisation. In Perry's hands, it's a love song again, and he seems to caress it with his voice. It's a fine performance, one of Perry's best.

( notes from "The Incomparable Como" Readers Digest UK compilation 1975 )

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