I meant to put up this post for April Fools’ Day earlier today but I had a late one last night. I’ve been listening to over a hundred songs about fooling and joking over the last few days and I’ve managed to whittle that number down to an even half dozen. Lots of these songs are in the soul genre and most of them are about how love makes fools of even the wisest of people. The first two songs have become standards and were both recorded by Frank Sinatra during his prolific career. He was one of the first singers to perform Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread) in 1940. The lyrics were written by Johnny Mercer and the music by Rube Bloom and its content can be summed up brilliantly in these lines: “Fools rush in where wise men never go/But wise men never fall in love”. Zooey Deschanel does it justice on She & Him‘s 2010 version for Levi’s Pioneer Sessions
