June Is Bustin Out All Over

Except that June doesn't really bust, does it? Not in Maine, where Carousel , the show for which the song was written, happens to be set. It's one of those indeterminate months - might be a glorious degree summer's day, or as in my corner of Northern New England a few nights back you might have a frost advisory. A few years back on June 1st, my town was still recovering from a late very late winter clobbering that knocked out all power at SteynOnline corporate HQ for over a week.

Nevertheless, while partially dissociating myself from the notion of June as a calendar-buster, I was struck by the fact that in my book A Song For The Season personally autographed copies of which are exclusively available , etc, etc we don't have any "month" songs. But that's a "day" song that just happens to have a month in the title. I like a number that gives you a real whiff of time and place, and there's a heavy scent of summer in Hoagy Carmichael 's unhurried, meandering tune. As for the lyric, Paul Francis Webster, having saddled himself with Miranda and the veranda and a fiend of a rhyme scheme, then comes up with a real lulu of an image: Memphis In June With sweet oleander Blowing perfume in the air….

For a long while, I thought that was the only lyric ever to use the word "oleander", but every time I say so someone writes in with another citation Steely Dan's "My Old School". If you know any others, drop me a line: Despite June's best efforts, the most popular musical month remains September, as in "September Song": The days dwindle down To a precious few September November That's why songwriters like the ninth month of the year, because it symbolizes the September of your years to cite a Sinatra title , the autumn of your days, when an old man's fancy turns to melancholy contemplation of the falling leaves on his biological calendar.

June doesn't have quite that emblematic heft, although Oscar Hammerstein certainly tries his hardest: March went out like a lion A-whippin' up the water in the bay Then April cried And stepped aside And along come pretty little May! May was full of promises But she didn't keep 'em quick enough fer some And a crowd of Doubtin' Thomases Was predictin' that the summer'd never come. But it's comin', by gum!

Y'ken feel it come Y'ken feel it in yer heart Y'ken see it in the ground Y'ken hear it in the trees Y'ken smell it in the breeze Look around, look around, look around! All over the meadow and the hill Buds're bustin' outta bushes And the rompin' river pushes Ev'ry little wheel that wheels beside a mill Ferenc Molnar wrote the play Liliom in , and turned down offers to musicalize it from, among others, Puccini and Gershwin.

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Rodgers and Hammerstein evidently proved more persuasive and, after securing the rights, the first decision they made was to move the action from Budapest to down east in Maine. It was the team's second show, after their smash debut in with Oklahoma! Carousel is an entirely different show from Oklahoma!

How do you build it? As much as Hammerstein hated to be inaccurate, he finally decided to leave the stanza alone. Whenever anyone else challenged him about it, he said it was true for most years, just not , when, curiously enough, the sheep decided to mate in the spring. The other problem did not arise until the play was made into a movie in Near the end of the song, Hammerstein provided this stanza:.

At that time, movies had to adhere to the standards of the Production Code Administration, which ruled that those words were inappropriate. Hammerstein substituted a new stanza, which is now universally used. Enjoy the scene from the movie.

Rodgers and Hammerstein: June is Bustin’ Out All Over

The ocean is full of Jacks and Jills, With her little tail a-swishin' Ev'ry lady fish is wishin' That a male would come And grab her by the gills! The saplin's are bustin' out with sap! Love he's found my brother, "Junior," And my sister's even lunier, And my ma is gettin' kittenish with Pap.

The sheep aren't sleepin' any more. All the rams that chase ewe sheep Are determined there'll be new sheep, And the ewe sheep aren't even keepin' score! Then April cried and stepped aside, And along came pretty little May! May was full of promises, But she didn't keep 'em quick enough for some, And a crowd of Doubtin' Thomases Was predictin' that the summer'd never come.

June Is Bustin' Out All Over

Y' ken can feel it come, Y' ken can feel it in yer heart, Y' ken can see it in the ground, [Girls] Y' ken can see it in the trees, Y' ken can smell it in the breeze [All] Look around, look around, look around! Lotsa ships are kept at anchor Jest because the captains hanker Fer the comfort they ken only get in port! If this song really means something special to you, describe your feelings and thoughts.

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