You Must Believe in Spring
| PROFILE | |
| Composer | Michel Legrand |
| Lyricist (French) | Jacques Demy |
| Lyricist (English) | Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman |
| Year Written | 1967 |
| About You Must Believe In Spring | |
| This song was written for the 1967 French film Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, which starred Catherine Deneuve. “You Must Believe In Spring” has been widely recorded by artists including Sylvia Syms, Barbra Streisand and Bill Evans, in a posthumous release of an album with the same name, featuring sessions with Eddie Gomez and Eliot Zigmund. | |
Lyrics
When lonely feelings chill
The meadows of your mind
Just think if winter comes
Can spring be far behind?
Beneath the deepest snows
The secret of a rose
Is merely that it knows
You must believe in spring
Just as a tree is sure
Its leaves will reappear
It knows its emptiness
Is just a time of year
The frozen mountains dreams
Of April’s melting streams
How crystal clear it seems
You must believe in spring
You must believe in love
And trust it’s on its way
Just as a sleeping rose
Awaits the kiss of May
So in a world of snow
Of things that come and go
Where what you think you know
You can’t be certain of
You must believe in spring and love
You must believe in love
And trust it’s on its way
Just as a sleeping rose
Awaits the kiss of May
So in a world of snow
Of things that come and go
Where what you think you know
You can’t be certain of
You must believe in spring and love
Session / Album Information
1976-1
“You Must Believe In Spring” was recorded in September, 1976 and was released the following year on Together Again.
This recording released on:
- 1977: Improv LP 12″: 7117 — Together Again
- Disky CD: BX 883552 — As Time Goes By
- 1991: DRG CD: CDMRS901 — Together Again
- 1996: Victor CD: VICJ-5177 — Together Again
- 1999: Rhino CD: R2 75837 — Together Again
- 2000: Horatio Nelson CD: HNRCD9001 — The Essential Tony Bennett (UK)
- 2002: Recall CD: RECA 353 — Have You Met Miss Jones? [UK]
- 2003: Concord CD: CCD-2198 — Together Again
- 2004: Concord CD: CCD4-2255 — The Complete Improv Recordings
- 2009: Concord CD: FAN-31281 — The Complete Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Recordings
- 2011: Disc #53 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK52) Together Again
1976-2
“You Must Believe In Spring” (alternate, take 4) was recorded in September, 1976 but was not released until the 1999 Rhino release of Together Again.
This recording released on:
- 1999: Rhino CD: R2 75837 — Together Again
- 2003: Concord CD: CCD-2198 — Together Again
- 2004: Concord CD: CCD4-2255 — The Complete Improv Recordings
- 2009: Concord CD: FAN-31281 — The Complete Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Recordings
- 2011: Disc #53 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK52) Together Again
1976-3
“You Must Believe In Spring” (alternate, take 1) was recorded in September, 1976 but was not released until the 2003 Concord release of Together Again.
This recording released on:
- 2003: Concord CD: CCD-2198 — Together Again
- 2004: Concord CD: CCD4-2255 — The Complete Improv Recordings
- 2009: Concord CD: FAN-31281 — The Complete Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Recordings