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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.
A number of later musicians have mentioned the album as a source of inspiration. In 2022, singer-songwriter Amos Lee made his own cover of "My Funny Valentine" that was directly inspired by the cover on the album and released the covers album My Ideal: A Tribute to Chet Baker Sings. [17]
All compositions by Sonny Stitt except as indicated "My Funny Valentine" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 3:26 "Sonny's Bunny" – 3:58 "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 4:19
The album opens with a cover of a favorite jazz vehicle, "My Funny Valentine" by Richard Rodgers, which as Keith Shadwick notes is "normally performed by jazz musicians as a moody ballad" but here is "the single up-tempo romp on the album"; it was also actually "the last-recorded piece on the date."
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.
My Funny Valentine is an album by American jazz pianist Larry Willis recorded in 1988 and originally released on the Japanese Jazz City label before being reissued in the US on Evidence Music in 1998.
Learn a bit more about Valentine's Day and why we celebrate Feb. 14 with sweet nothings, candy and other fascinating trivia facts in this fun game that uses chocolate Hershey's kisses as incentive.
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 ...