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"My Funny Valentine" is a show tune from the 1937 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart coming of age musical Babes in Arms in which it was introduced by teenaged star Mitzi Green. The song became a popular jazz standard, appearing on over 1300 albums performed by over 600 artists. One of them was Chet Baker, [1] for whom it became his signature song.
"My Funny Valentine" "My Heart Stood Still" "My Romance" "Sing for Your Supper" "Spring Is Here" "Ten Cents a Dance" "The Lady Is a Tramp" "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" "There's a Small Hotel" "This Can't Be Love" "Thou Swell" "To Keep My Love Alive" "Where or When" "With a Song in My Heart" "You Took Advantage of Me"
My Funny Valentine: Miles Davis in Concert is a live album by the jazz trumpter and composer Miles Davis. It was recorded at a concert at the Philharmonic Hall of Lincoln Center, New York City, on February 12, 1964 and released through Columbia Records the following year.
Rodgers and Hart were an American songwriting partnership between composer Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) and the lyricist Lorenz Hart (1895–1943). They worked together on 28 stage musicals and more than 500 songs from 1919 until Hart's death in 1943.
Broadway theatre contributed some of the most popular standards of the 1930s, including George and Ira Gershwin's "Summertime" (1935), Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's "My Funny Valentine" (1937) and Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's "All the Things You Are" (1939). These songs still rank among the most recorded standards. [1]
The 1999 film version of The Talented Mr. Ripley, Matt Damon plays a master of mimicry who imitates Baker's recording of "My Funny Valentine" from Chet Baker Sings. Chet Baker is portrayed by Ethan Hawke in the 2015 film Born to Be Blue .
Composer, piano [23] My Funny Valentine: Miles Davis in Concert: Miles Davis Guest artist, main personnel, piano [24] E.S.P. Composer, guest artist, piano [25] Components: Bobby Hutcherson: Guest artist, organ, piano [26] The Turnaround! Hank Mobley Guest artist, piano [27] Cornbread: Lee Morgan [28] Contours: Sam Rivers [29] In the Beginning ...
My Funny Valentine: Frederica von Stade sings Rodgers and Hart is a 69-minute studio album of songs from Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's musicals, performed in historically authentic versions by von Stade, Rosemary Ashe, Peta Bartlett, Lynda Richardson, the Ambrosian Chorus and the London Symphony Orchestra under the direction of John McGlinn ...