Local Lady Wrote Blossom Song Hit 

May 1926

Mrs. Frank Simpson 
Was Author of Song Sung 
Over Radio To Herald Blossom Fete.

     That the Michigan Blossom Week song, extolling the beauties of blossom land, which was broadcasted from three Chicago radio stations and from Berrien Springs and was sung at the blossom pageant at Benton Harbor last week, was written by a Hartford woman was not known to many local people who "listened in."

     Mrs. Frank G. Simpson, residing east of town, is the author of the song which made a decided "hit" as sung by E. C.  Edmunds of Benton Harbor at the radio stations while the Michigan fruit belt was blanketed with its annual profusion of bloom.

     A Day Spring editorial is said to have been the inspiration for the song.  The editorial published some weeks ago, discussing the approaching blossom period, was ready by Mrs. Simpson while she was at Pensacola, Fla., and she immediately wrote the verses that added a fine bit of sentiment to the blossom festival.

     Music for the song was written by Mrs. Nate Simpson of Keeler, who was also at Pensacola at the time.  Mrs. Nate Simpson also sang the blossom time "hit" at the community meeting of sewing clubs at the Hartford high school auditorium last Wednesday.

Refrain

Oh! it's blossom time in Michigan,

My thoughts are on the wing,

I can hear the lilting warble

Of the blue birds as they sing,

I can feel the lake breeze blowing, 

See the golden sunlight flowing,

Oh! my heart is turning homeward

At the calling of the Spring.