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"On the First Warm Day" (also known as "The First Warm Day in May").〔(Notes, "The Art of Mabel Mercer, Atlantic Records 2-602, 1965 )〕 is an American pop standard with music and lyrics by Bart Howard. It was originally recorded by Rosemary Clooney for Columbia Records on April 18, 1952. Other performers with renditions of the tune over the succeeding decades include Mabel Mercer (1952), Alma Cogan (1953), Portia Nelson (1956), Chris Connor (1958), Eydie Gormé (1958), Betty Johnson (1995), KT Sullivan (1997) and Joyce Breach (2003).〔(dbotm: the Database of Popular Music )〕 ==Early recordings: Rosemary Clooney, Mabel Mercer and Alma Cogan== Rosemary Clooney's April 18 recording session, with harpsichordist Stan Freeman, bassist Frank Carroll, drummer Terry Snyder and guitarists Mundell Lowe and Sal Salvador, produced three songs,〔(''The Rosemary Clooney Palladium'' (discography and illustrations) )〕 with the first, "Botch-a-Me (Ba-Ba-Baciami Piccina)" (catalog number 4–39767 CL 1230), turning out to be a major hit upon its release, which enhanced public acceptance of its flipside, "On the First Warm Day" (catalog number 4–39767 HL 7123).〔 〕 The third song was a duet with Marlene Dietrich, "Too Old to Cut the Mustard" (catalog number 4–39812 B 1699).〔 The first reviews and advertisements for the "Botch-a-Me"/"First Warm Day" 78 rpm (priced at 89 cents) appeared in newspapers at the end of June 1952〔F.J. "Popular Singles". (''The Capital Times'', June 27, 1952, page 7)〕 and continued into September, with some outlets discounting the discs to 19 cents by early August.〔"RECORD CLEARANCE Discontinued Numbers on Special Price—19c Each—For Best Selection Shop Early" (''The Cedar Rapids Gazette'', August 3, 1952)〕 Rosemary Clooney recorded "First Warm Day" one month before her 24th birthday. At about the same time, the veteran performer from the previous generation for whom the song was written, 52-year-old Mabel Mercer (who first sang one of Bart Howard's compositions in 1938 and employed him as her piano accompanist during the late 1940s),〔(Holden, Stephen. "Bart Howard, 88, songwriter known for 'Fly Me to the Moon'" (''The New York Times'', February 23, 2004) )〕 recorded the song for issue on an Atlantic Records EP. It was also included on her first 10" Atlantic LP album, ''Songs by Mabel Mercer, Vol. 1'' (1953), and subsequently reappeared on Atlantic's double 12" LP album, ''The Art of Mabel Mercer'' (1965), which collected all her 1953 EP and 10" LP recordings. It is currently available in the 6-CD set ''Only the Best of Mabel Mercer'' on the Collectables label.〔(Mabel Mercer: "The First Warm Day in May" at ''AllMusic'' )〕 In 1953, less than a year after its American debut, "First Warm Day" made its initial appearance in Britain, with 21-year-old Alma Cogan, England's most successful female pop singer of the 1950s, recording it as a duet alongside fellow pop vocalist Les Howard, whose solo rendition of another tune was on side B.〔(''International Lyrics Playground'': complete lyrics to "On the First Warm Day", as heard in the Rosemary Clooney rendition as well as in the performance by Alma Cogan and Les Howard )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「On the First Warm Day」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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