Spring Is Here is a 1938 popular song composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Lorenz Hart for the musical I Married an Angel, where it was introduced by Dennis King and Vivienne Segal. The lyric is moody and bittersweet about love and spring, contrasting Hart’s rueful words with Rodgers’s lush melody and capturing the feeling of unrequited or elusive romance. The tune is a show tune that has become a jazz standard and has been recorded on many albums by artists such as Ella Fitzgerald on Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook (1956), Miles Davis on Miles Davis at Carnegie Hall (1961), John Coltrane on Standard Coltrane (1958), and Nina Simone on Nina Simone with Strings (1966). There is also a note of historical context that Rodgers and Hart previously wrote a song with a similar title for a 1929 Broadway production called Spring Is Here in Person.
