TWO SHEET-MUSIC SELECTIONS from the 1940s- "It Might As Well Be Spring" (Rodgers and Hammerstein) & "Right As The Rain" (by Harold Arlen and E.Y Harburg) -  PREOWNED

The CONDITION of both sheet-music selections are USED but ACCEPTABLE. However---given their age---each piece of sheet music has some specific issues. PLEASE SEE THE PHOTOS ABOVE BEFORE PURCHASE.

ABOUT THE SONGS AND SHEET MUSIC-

"IT MIGHT AS WELL BE SPRING"- The song was written for the 1945 film "State Fair," It features the only original film score by the songwriting team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. The song won the Academy Award for Best Song that year. The 1945 film was a remake of the 1933 film version. After Oscar Hammerstein's death in 1960, another version of the movie was filmed by 20th Century Fox in 1962. Directed by Jose Ferrer. It featured Pat Boone, Bobby Darin, Ann-Margret an Alice Faye. The original song was first copyrighted in 1945 by Williamson Music, Inc. in New York. This sheet-music is from the 1962 film version. It was purchased that same year at Wallach's Music City in Hollywood, California.

The sheet music is 4 pages long and measures 9 x 12 inches. CONDITION: There are minor signs of age and PAGES 3, 4 and 5 have a small portion of the corner missing in the bottom. SEE PHOTO 6 ABOVE. The previous owner has applied clear tape to the seam for reinforcement. It's barely visible. SEE PHOTO Otherwise, the sheet music is clean and unmarked.

LYRICS: 
I'm as restless as a willow in a windstorm, I'm as jumpy as puppet on a string
I'd say that I had spring fever, but I know it isn't spring
I am starry eyed and vaguely discontented, like a nightingale without a song to sing
O why should I have spring fever, when it isn't even spring
I keep I were someone else, walking down a strange new street
And hearing words that I've never heard from a girl I've yet to meet
I'm as busy as spider spinning daydreams, spinning spinning daydreams
I'm as giggy as a baby on a swing
I haven't seen a crocus or a rosebud, or a robin on the wing
But I feel so gay in a melancholy way, that it might as well be spring
It might as well be spring.

"RIGHT AS THE RAIN"
The song was written for a 1944 Broadway musical called "Bloomer Girl." With music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E.Y. 
Harburg, the book was based on an unpublished play by Lilith and Dan James. It was first introduced by actress Celeste
Holm in the show and later recorded several times by singer Barbra Streisand. 

The sheet music is 3 pages long and measures 9 x 12 inches. CONDITION: Given its age, the original sheet music from 1944 has 
signs of age, including some discoloration, folding creasing and minor fragments missing at the corners..(SEE PHOTOS 7-12 ABOVE) The 
previous owner has applied clear tape (barely visible) for reinforcement. There is also handwriting on the cover page (possibly the 
owner way back when) and handwritten notations on the first page, indicating "Key of D" and the  numerical marking of #7. The music
was purchased at a garage sale in Beverly Hills in the 1980s.
THE LYRICS:

RIGHT AS THE RAIN
That falls from above
So real, so right is our love
It came like the spring
That breaks through the snow
I can't say what it may bring
I only know...I only know...
It's right to believe
Whatever gave your eyes this glow
Whatever gave my heart this song
Can't be wrong
It's right as the rain
That falls from above
And fills the world
With the blue of our love
As rain must fall
And day must dawn
This love...
This love...
Must go on.