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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]
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.
Several songs in Babes in Arms became pop standards, including the title song, "Where or When", "The Lady Is a Tramp", and "My Funny Valentine". [1] The film version, released in 1939, starred Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney and was directed by Busby Berkeley.
"My Funny Valentine," which had become a staple of the band's playbook, is played in the group's new modal style. [5] Coltrane and Adderley sit out for this track, and Evans, "ruminating moodily," takes an extended solo, "conjuring magical colors out of the resident 'honky-tonk'" piano. [ 6 ] (
'Four' & More: Recorded Live in Concert is a live album by Miles Davis. It was recorded at the Philharmonic Hall of Lincoln Center on February 12, 1964 and released two years later.
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.
My Funny Valentine" is a song by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. My Funny Valentine also refers to: My Funny Valentine (Miles Davis album) My Funny Valentine (Frederica von Stade album) My Funny Valentine (Larry Willis album) "My Funny Valentine", an episode of the animated series Cowboy Bebop