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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.
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] It was a significant inspiration to the bossa nova genre of music and Brazilian music as a whole.
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.
Jeroen de Valk has written a biography of Baker; Chet Baker: His Life and Music is the English translation. [49] Other biographies of him include James Gavin's Deep in a Dream—The Long Night of Chet Baker, and Matthew Ruddick's Funny Valentine.
Grusin's arrangement of "My Funny Valentine," sung by Michelle Pfeiffer, won the 1990 Grammy for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals. According to a survey conducted by Billboard, The Fabulous Baker Boys was the fifth best-selling jazz album of 1989. [1]
Many of the songs ("Falling in Love with Love", "Little Girl Blue", "My Funny Valentine") are wistful or sad, and emotional ambivalence seems to be perceptible in the background of even the sunnier songs. For example, "You Took Advantage of Me" appears to be an evocation of amorous joy, but the very title suggests some doubt as to whether the ...
My Funny Valentine (1964) Four & More (1964) Miles in Tokyo (1964) Professional ratings; ... Remixed and Mastered — Mark Wilder at Sony Music Studios, New York, NY.
"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"