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"My Funny Valentine" is a show tune from the 1937 Rodgers and 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.
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]
"Oliver's Army" was released as the debut single from Armed Forces on 2 February 1979, backed with Costello's rendition of the 1937 show-tune "My Funny Valentine". [24] [nb 3] The single became a commercial hit in the UK, reaching number two over a chart stay of 12 weeks, [26] and remains Costello's most successful UK single release.
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.
It does not seem simple, what with many dominant seventh chords, not to mention an augmented fifth. It also has a melody with many non-standard intervals. Could it be that the structure of the song is better described as "interesting" than as "simple and classic" and that the song attracts jazz musicians (but not, say, bluegrass musicians ...
I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry; I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan; I Hadn't Anyone Till You; I Happen to Like New York; I Have Dreamed; I Hear a Rhapsody; I Hear Music; I Left My Heart in San Francisco; I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart; I Love Paris; I Love You (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons; I Loves You, Porgy; I Married an Angel ...
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: 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.