Every year about this time there’s a quick burst of blossom, a promise of renewal and that first pitch of the national pastime. I don’t know about you but it’s my favorite time of year, a time when winter’s cold is shut down and we’ve got that Spring Fever. This week’s show will take time out for a couple sets celebrating and remembering baseball’s past through music with the likes of The Treniers, Danny Kaye, and Dr. John with some early rapping from Mel Allen of all people. And that’s just the half of it because the fever goes beyond the diamond: we’ll share songs of April love with Shirley Jones, Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White with Perez Prado, Nina Simone, Martha Tilton, and a run of classic country with Johnny Horton, Sons of the Pioneers and the Sons of the San Joaquin. From stickball to kite-flying to the first frisbees of the year in the local park. Let’s get away from it all.

No.	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
1	Radio Commercial	'Spring Time Fever Time'	Spring Fever – 28 Easter Nuggets For Your Spring Season
2	The Velvets	Spring Fever	Spring Fever – 28 Easter Nuggets For Your Spring Season
3	Shirley Jones & Pat Boone	April Love (Film Version)	Spring Fever – 28 Easter Nuggets For Your Spring Season
4	The Pentagons	It's Spring Again	Spring Fever – 28 Easter Nuggets For Your Spring Season
5	Martha Tilton	I'll Remember April	The Liltin' Miss Tilton [Disc 1]
6	Perez Prado And His Orchestra	Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White	Magic Moments: Best Of 50's Pop (Disc 2)
7	Count Basie	April in Paris	Pure Jazz
8	Naturals & Mel Allen	Baseball Dreams	Baseball's Greatest Hits
9	Johnny Darling	Baseball Baby	Radio Radio Vol.5 [Disc 1] Bob Dylan
10	Dr. John	Take Me Out To The Ballgame	Baseball A Film By Ken Burns – Original Soundtrack Recording
11	The Treniers	Say Hey (The Willie Mays Song)	Baseball Anthems
12	Sister Wynona Carr	The Ball Game	Baseball Anthems
13	Russ Hodges	Bobby Thomson's Shot Heard 'Round The World	Baseball Anthems
14	Terry Cashman	Talkin' Baseball (Willie, Mickey & "The Duke")	61* [Box Set] Disc 1
15	Mickey Mantle & Teresa Brewer	I Love Mickey	Baseball's Greatest Hits
16	Danny Kaye	D-O-D-G-E-R-S Song (Oh, Really? No, O'Malley)	Baseball's Greatest Hits
17	Stormy Weather	The Land Of Wrigley	Baseball's Greatest Hits
18	Steve Goodman	A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request	Baseball's Greatest Hits
19	Betty Bonney & Les Brown and His Orchestra	Joltin' Joe Dimaggio	Baseball Anthems
20	Little Willie John	I've Got Spring Fever	Little Willie John
21	Birdlegs & Pauline And Their Versatility Birds	Spring	Birth Of Soul: 2
22	Jerry Duane & The Monarchs	It Might As Well Be Spring	Spring Fever – 28 Easter Nuggets For Your Spring Season
23	Nina Simone	It Might As Well Be Spring	The Best Of Nina Simone: The Colpix Years
24	Craig Douglas	Hello Spring	Spring Fever – 28 Easter Nuggets For Your Spring Season
25	The Cadillacs	It's Spring	For Collectors Only (Disc 3)
26	Delbon Johnson	It's Always Springtime in Nassau	Putumayo Presents: Calypso
27	The Browns	Springtime	Classics 1964-1966 (Warped 6529)
28	Johnny Horton	When It's Springtime In Alaska (It's Forty Below)	36 All-Time Greatest Hits
29	Sons of the Pioneers	Springtime On the Range	1941 vol 1 (Warped 4108)
30	Sons Of The San Joaquin	Ridin' For The Roundup In The Springtime	From Whence Came The Cowboy
31	Charlie Monroe	Springtime in Glory	1950-1956 (Warped 5079)
32	Billie Holiday	Some Other Spring	Ken Burns Jazz
33	Mose Allison	Spring Song	Mose Allison [2-fer]
34	Mose Allison	Fires Of Spring	Gimcracks and Gewgaws
35	Tony Perkins	April Fool	On a Rainy Afternoon