Jazz Standards Songs and Instrumentals (Too Marvelous for Words)

Too Marvelous for Words (1937)

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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 "Too Marvelous for Words" may be found in:


David Ewen American Songwriters: An H.W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary H. W. Wilson Hardcover: 489 pages (1 paragraph including the following types of information: history and performers.)


Alec Wilder American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950 Oxford University Press; Reprint edition Hardcover: 576 pages (1 page including the following types of information: music analysis.)


Allen Forte The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950: A Study in Musical Design Princeton University Press Hardcover: 336 pages (6 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.)


Max Morath The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Popular Standards Perigee Books Paperback: 235 pages (1 paragraph including the following types of information: history and performers.)


Max Wilk They're Playing Our Song: Conversations With America's Classic Songwriters Da Capo Press; 1st Da Capo Press ed edition Paperback: 296 pages (2 paragraphs including the following types of information: anecdotal. (Page 132).)


Philip Furia Skylark: The Life and Times of Johnny Mercer St. Martin's Press; 1st edition Hardcover: 320 pages (3 pages including the following types of information: anecdotal, history 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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Johnny Mercer and Richard A. Whiting
Year	Rank	Title
1937	344	“Too Marvelous for Words”