--- In awilder@yahoogroups.com, Gordon Sapsed <gordonsapsed@...> wrote:
>
Dirk Shaeffer doesn't quote any dates for the recording by Mitch Miller of
'April Age' by Don Cherry with Percy Faith's Orchestra, although the sheet music
shows it as being written in 1956.
>

Dates, he's asking, 50 years later!

What I mean, of course, is thanks for this story, Gordon, which I didn't know,
and which recording, in fact, I didn't know of either.

I am surprised though that the date is 1956 because the first I could have seen
of the sheet music would have been around the beginning of that year, and I just
sort of assumed the song had been around for any number of years before that.
Makes me wonder, now, whether the Don Cherry cut really was the first, as I've
always believed, or only one of a too-small bunch.

But thanx again for the input.

Dirk (with a "c" in Schaeffer)