" I'll Remember April"--55 years later I still remember that April.
In April of 1960, I first met Ann when she was in Nursing . Fifty-Five years later, I am glad that I can still see her every day. Early on, we decided that " I'll Remember April" would be our song. not only because of the month in question but because it is a lovely song with an unusual and haunting melody with sensitive and insightful lyrics.
Written in 1941 by Gene DePaul with words by Don Raye, the song recounts the strength of the initial April encounter, the gradual the cooling of initial passion but the singer concludes that despite the sadness of a parting of the ways with these words "I won't forget but I won't be lonely, I'll remember April and be glad.. Bittersweet but honest sentiments.
This performance is by Frank Sinatra and an arrangement by Axel Stordahl who accompanied Sinatra early in his career. As always, Sinatra invests all of his dramatic powers in the song making it so believable both in the evocation of initial passion and the recognition of the love that disappeared. The love still remembered with fondness of what was once true that long ago April.
https://youtu.be/9lj_kBFixjU
