Jazz Standards Songs and Instrumentals (My Shining Hour)

My Shining Hour (1943)

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Year	Rank	Title
1930	1	“Body and Soul”
1939	2	“All the Things You Are”
1935	3	“Summertime”
1944	4	“'Round Midnight”
1935	5	“I Can't Get Started (with You)”
1937	6	“My Funny Valentine”
1942	7	“Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be)”
1930	8	“What Is This Thing Called Love?”
1933	9	“Yesterdays”
1946	10	“Stella by Starlight”

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Additional information for "My Shining Hour" may be found in:


Alec Wilder American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950 Oxford University Press; Reprint edition Hardcover: 576 pages (2 pages including the following types of information: music analysis.)


Thomas S. Hischak The American Musical Film Song Encyclopedia Greenwood Press Hardcover: 536 pages (1 paragraph including the following types of information: summary and performers.)


Susan Sackett Hollywood Sings!: An Inside Look at Sixty Years of Academy Award-Nominated Songs Pub Overstock Unlimited Inc Paperback: 332 pages (6 paragraphs including the following types of information: history and performers.)


Philip Furia Skylark: The Life and Times of Johnny Mercer St. Martin's Press; 1st edition Hardcover: 320 pages (2 paragraphs including the following types of information: anecdotal and lyric analysis.)


Robert Gottlieb, Robert Kimball Reading Lyrics Pantheon Hardcover: 736 pages (Includes the following types of information: song lyrics.)

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This section shows the jazz standards written by the same writing team.

Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer
Year	Rank	Title
1946	51	“Come Rain or Come Shine”
1942	180	“That Old Black Magic”
1941	207	“Blues in the Night”
1943	307	“My Shining Hour”
1941	416	“This Time the Dream's on Me”
1944	434	“Out of This World”
1943	739	“One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)”