Shirley Jones "It Might as Well be Spring"

Shirley Jones singing "It Might as Well be Spring" from State Fair as a guest star on "The Danny Thomas Show."

This episode is a part of the season 6 dvd set recently released by S'more Entertainment.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Shirley
• Jones
• It
• Might
• as
• well
• be
• spring
• state
• fair
• rodgers
• hammerstein
• danny
• thomas
• show
• make
• room
• for
• daddy
• partridge
• Lauritz
• Melchior

[dallyx66]

Why is Lauritz Melchior (the great opera star) playing the piano for her?!

[kirkba]

@dallyx66 He played her father in the episode.

[Chordwayze]

Fabulous of course... Was this a live performance, or from a film? I am always bemused... In these musical films, where does the orchestra suddenly spring from?

Seriously good music.

[kirkba]

It was done for the Danny Thomas Show around 1959. The show was recorded in front of a live audience and then broadcast on tv a few weeks later.

[JohnnyGNV]

What a truly nice voice she had ~ no wonder she was featured in some of the most popular Musicals on the silver screen....I think she was wasted on TV shows such as

PARTRIDGE FAMILY [cute though it was].

[rickcee]

I might be getting old; showing my age, and a sucker for nostalgia. but damn if this stuff doesn't bring a tear to my eye.

[princepeterwolf]

best performance of this song I've ever heard

[har9020]

Dude plays the piano, but where did the strings come from?

[IvyroseGullwhacker]

OMG Marian the librarian!

[volleyballgurl101508]

what a voice

[Judill]

Shirley Jones is the perfect Rodgers and Hammerstein ingenue. This is wonderful.

[kettie5678]

red flags of depression....



[east215]

I love Shirley, eve if she's a Republican - lol.

[TheLadyWhoLunches]

@rickcee Don't worry. I'm teary-eyed, and I'm only fifteen. This is such a beautiful song, and I absolutely adore Shirley Jones.

[eotto2001]

This is probably close to what Rogers and Hammerstein intended. I don't recall if she did the Broadway version of State Fair. Most of the versions I heard of this were Jazz versions so it was nice to hear it originally and with the intro. I never cared for Danny Thomas or Make Room for Daddy. He was kind of scary because he was always yelling all the time. Yikes! What a nice piece of film here. Thanks for the post.

[BernardProfitendieu]

@melaniehoover Jeanne Crain didn't sing it, her's was dubbed

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