Christmas in July of July (Canada Day on July 1 in Canada and American Independence Day on July 4 in the United States) and Labor/Labour Day (the first Monday in September for both the US and Canada), leaving a stretch of about two months with no holidays (some Canadian provinces hold a Civic Holiday, but neither Canada nor the United States has ever recognized a national holiday during that month). The late July period provides relatively few opportunities for merchandising, since it is typically after the peak of summer product sales in June and early July, but before the "back to school" shopping
On the First Warm Day was long past its heyday, but Joyce became a highly respected part of it..." Eight months after Rosemary Clooney's death in June 2002, an Audio CD and MP3 album on the British Sepia label, "You're Just in Love (with Rosemary Clooney) The Early Hits", a compilation of 25 songs she recorded in the early 1950s, featured "On the First Warm Day" as one of the selections. Sixty years after its initial appearance, the song was rediscovered in May 2012 when the words in the opening lines indicating the month, "on the first warm day in May", were utilized in the