You Are Too Beautiful
1932 song
You Are Too Beautiful is a 1932 song written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart for the 1933 film Hallelujah, I'm a Bum, where it was sung by Al Jolson.[1][2] It became a pop and jazz standard in the 1940s, with a notable recording made on August 3, 1945 by Dick Haymes (Decca 23750).[2][3]
Other recordings
Other versions include those by:[2]
- Frank Sinatra (1945)
- Bing Crosby (1953), found on compilation albums, among others Through the Years, Vol. 6: 1953–1954
- Cannonball Adderley on Julian Cannonball Adderley and Strings (1955)
- Thelonious Monk on The Unique Thelonious Monk (1956)
- Warne Marsh on Music for Prancing (1957)
- David Whitfield on Alone (1961)
- John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman on John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman (1963)
- Sarah Vaughan on Crazy and Mixed Up (1982)
- Seth MacFarlane on Once in a While (2019)
References
- ^ Forte, Allen (1995). The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924–1950. Princeton University Press. pp. 193–196. ISBN 0-691-04399-X.
- ^ a b c "You Are Too Beautiful". JazzStandards. Retrieved September 19, 2018.
- ^ Sullivan, Steve (2017). Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings: Volume 3. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 197–198. ISBN 978-1-4422-5449-7.
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Rodgers and Hart
- Fly with Me
- Poor Little Ritz Girl
- The Garrick Gaieties
- Dearest Enemy
- The Girl Friend
- Peggy-Ann
- A Connecticut Yankee
- Present Arms
- Chee-Chee
- Ever Green
- Simple Simon
- America's Sweetheart
- Jumbo
- On Your Toes
- Babes in Arms
- I'd Rather Be Right
- The Boys from Syracuse
- I Married an Angel
- Too Many Girls
- Higher and Higher
- Pal Joey
- By Jupiter
- "Manhattan"
- "Mountain Greenery"
- "Here in My Arms"
- "Blue Room"
- "My Heart Stood Still"
- "Thou Swell"
- "To Keep My Love Alive"
- "You Took Advantage of Me"
- "With a Song in My Heart"
- "A Ship Without a Sail"
- "Dancing on the Ceiling"
- "Ten Cents a Dance"
- "He Was Too Good to Me"
- "I've Got Five Dollars"
- "Isn't It Romantic?"
- "Lover"
- "Mimi"
- "You Are Too Beautiful"
- "Blue Moon"
- "It's Easy to Remember (And So Hard to Forget)"
- "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World"
- "My Romance"
- "Little Girl Blue"
- "There's a Small Hotel"
- "Glad to Be Unhappy"
- "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue"
- "Where or When"
- "I Wish I Were in Love Again"
- "My Funny Valentine"
- "Johnny One Note"
- "The Lady Is a Tramp"
- "Have You Met Miss Jones?"
- "I'll Tell the Man in the Street"
- "Spring Is Here"
- "Falling in Love with Love"
- "This Can't Be Love"
- "Sing for Your Supper"
- "I Like to Recognize the Tune"
- "I Didn't Know What Time It Was"
- "Give It Back to the Indians"
- "You're Nearer"
- "It Never Entered My Mind"
- "I Could Write a Book"
- "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered"
- "Ev'rything I've Got"
- "Wait till You See Her"
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