Songfacts®:

• Composed by Louis Silvers and written by B.G. De Sylva, this song debuted in the 1921 Broadway musical Bombo and was performed by Al Jolson.
• This song became a popular cover by several jazz and traditional pop singers, including Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Margaret Whiting, Eddie Fisher, Eydie Gorme, Mel Torme and Cab Calloway. R&B/Soul singer Jackie Wilson also included the song on his Al Jolson tribute album, Nowstalgia...You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet, in 1961.
• This song was featured in the 1948 film musical April Showers, starring Jack Carson and Ann Sothern as a married couple in a struggling vaudeville act.
• This song has a rare claim to fame in that it was sung in a courtroom (by a judge). According to a report in the March 7, 1953 issue of the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper filed from Detroit, "Circuit Judge Vincent M. Brennan gave his decision in a contract suit between a singer and an orchestra leader," and after recessing the court, "stepped down from the bench and sang 'April Showers' to prove he was 'musically qualified' to decide the case." >>>

  Suggestion credit:
  Alexander Baron - London, England