It Might as Well Be Spring
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It Might as Well Be Spring is a song featured in the 1945 film State Fair. Written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, it won the Academy Award for Best Original Song that year. State Fair was the only original film score by Rodgers and Hammerstein. In the film the song was sung by Dick Haymes, whose recording remains the definitive one, despite one in the mid-Sixties by Frank Sinatra.
Singer and pianist Nina Simone sang "It Might As Well Be Spring" on her first album for Colpix Records, titled The Amazing Nina Simone (1959).
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| Preceded by "Swinging on a Star" from Going My Way |
Academy Award for Best Original Song 1945 |
Succeeded by "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" from The Harvey Girls |
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