Paris in the Spring is a popular song

Popular music

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 composed in 1935, with lyrics by Mack Gordon

Mack Gordon

Mack Gordon was an American composer and lyricist of songs for the stage and film. He was nominated for the best original song Oscar nine times, including six consecutive years between 1940 and 1945, and won the award once, for "You'll Never Know"...

 and music by Harry Revel

Harry Revel

Harry Revel was an English composer of musical theatre.Revel was born in London. Before emigrating to the United States in 1929, he wrote musicals for productions in Paris, Copenhagen, Vienna and London....

. It was first introduced by Mary Ellis

Mary Ellis

Mary Ellis was a long-lived star of the British stage best known for her roles in the genre of musical theatre. After appearing with the Metropolitan Opera beginning in 1918, later appearing opposite Enrico Caruso, she acted on Broadway, creating the title role in Rose Marie...

 in the film Paris in Spring

Paris in Spring

Paris in Spring is a 1935 black and white musical comedy film directed by Lewis Milestone for Paramount Pictures.It is based on a play by Dwight Taylor, with a screen play by Samuel Hoffenstein and Franz Schulz.-Plot:...

. A version was also recorded by Ray Noble

Ray Noble (musician)

Ray Noble was an English bandleader, composer, arranger and actor. Noble studied music at the Royal Academy of Music and became leader of the HMV Records studio band in 1929. The band, known as the New Mayfair Dance Orchestra, featured members of many of the top hotel orchestras of the day...

 and His Orchestra (also in 1935). In 1960, Jo Stafford

Jo Stafford

Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an American singer of traditional pop music and jazz standards and occasional actress whose career ran from the late 1930s to the early 1960s...

 and her husband Paul Weston

Paul Weston

Paul Weston was an American pianist, arranger, composer and conductor. Weston was born Paul Wetstein in Springfield, Massachusetts...

 recorded a version for their comedy album Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris

Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris

Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris is a 1960 comedy album recorded by American singer Jo Stafford and her husband, pianist and bandleader Paul Weston...

in which they put their own unique interpretation on the song.

This song title is often used in an informal psychological test. "Paris in the the Spring" is written with an extra "the." A subject is asked to read the text, and will often jump to conclusions and fail to notice the extra "the," especially when there is a line break between the two the's.

Notable recordings

• Ray Noble
  Ray Noble (musician)
  Ray Noble was an English bandleader, composer, arranger and actor. Noble studied music at the Royal Academy of Music and became leader of the HMV Records studio band in 1929. The band, known as the New Mayfair Dance Orchestra, featured members of many of the top hotel orchestras of the day...
  
   (1935)
• Jo Stafford
  Jo Stafford
  Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an American singer of traditional pop music and jazz standards and occasional actress whose career ran from the late 1930s to the early 1960s...
  
   - Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris
  Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris
  Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris is a 1960 comedy album recorded by American singer Jo Stafford and her husband, pianist and bandleader Paul Weston...
  
  (1960)