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"Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" (1955) is apopularsong with lyrics byFran Landesman, set to music byTommy Wolf. The title is ajazz rendition of the opening line ofT. S. Eliot'sThe Waste Land, "April is the cruellest month".[1] The song describes how somebody feels sad and depressed despite all the good things associated with spring.[2]
Tommy Wolf was a pianist, composer, arranger, and musical director who met Fran Landesman while she was sitting in the bar of the Crystal Palace, a night club inSt. Louis that was owned by her husband Jay Landesman and his brother. Wolf was on the bandstand playing. This experience inspired her to begin writing song lyrics and in 1952 Wolf began setting her lyrics to music. More Landesman–Wolf collaborations followed, including the melodies for the songs for the 1959Broadway musicalThe Nervous Set. It included this previously released song, although it is not on the original cast album.
