- 2025-12-21
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MUSIC
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Melissa Errico Releases Cover of “Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year”
American actress and singer Melissa Errico will release her upcoming album “I Can Dream, Can't I?” on January 30, 2026.
The album is a collection of standards and consists of songs of self-reliance and self-reflection.
From the album, she released a cover of “Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year” along with a music video on December 19, 2025.
The original version of the song first heard in the 1994 film “Christmas Holiday” directed by Robert Siodmak, starring Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly.
The track was written by Frank Loesser and remains one of his most quietly affecting works.
The song was largely overlooked for some ten years before being rediscovered in the mid-1950s to become a pop and jazz standard much recorded by vocalists and instrumentalists.
The cover version was produced by Phillip Hall. The music video was directed by Matthew Edginton.- Melissa Errico described it as “about our inner weather: hopes falter - as we know - and renewal can be delayed. Tenderness survives the chill, and I tried to explore that sense of looking for inner strength.”
She also released two more song “All In Fun” and “Lost In His Arms” from the album on the same day.
She said, “Two more tracks from my waterfall release 'I Can Dream, Can't I?' are out. 'All in Fun' (Jerome Kern/ Oscar Hammerstein, 1939) and 'Lost in His Arms' (Irving Berlin, 1946). I hope the ruminative nature of the music- with a romantic comedy glimmer- gives you a peaceful few minutes on these days we could use a little ease of heart.” -
She continued, “Both are what I’d call bittersweet; and Sondheimian in their deceptive simplicity - very much in keeping with the emotional obstacle course of our album. 'Lost in His Arms,' from the 1946 musical Annie Get Your Gun, comes directly from my intuition that our songs are drawn from the 'field of poppies from which sprang Sondheim's opium' - it appears on the very wish list by Stephen Sondheim that he titled: "Songs I Wish I Had Written.” - source : Apple Music
