Jazz Standards Songs and Instrumentals (Manhattan)

Manhattan (1925)

Origin and Chart Information

Currently, 1000 jazz standards are ranked and have web pages (click on Songs for the full list).

The top 100 are fully documented:

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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Written by the Same Composer or Team...

This section shows the jazz standards written by the same writing team. Click on a name to see all of a writer's jazz standards.

Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers
Year	Rank	Title
1937	6	“My Funny Valentine”
1939	82	“I Didn’t Know What Time It Was”
1935	91	“My Romance”
1934	94	“Blue Moon”
1932	118	“Lover”
1938	123	“This Can’t Be Love”
1935	124	“Little Girl Blue”
1940	181	“It Never Entered My Mind”
1937	208	“Where or When”
1937	222	“Have You Met Miss Jones”
1938	228	“Spring Is Here”
1927	246	“My Heart Stood Still”
1927	278	“Thou Swell”
1936	284	“There’s a Small Hotel”
1938	289	“Falling in Love with Love”
1928	310	“You Took Advantage of Me”
1941	335	“Bewitched”
1937	336	“The Lady Is a Tramp”
1932	337	“Isn’t It Romantic”
1926	429	“Blue Room”
1932	449	“You Are Too Beautiful”
1940	455	“I Could Write a Book”
1925	489	“Manhattan”
1935	527	“It’s Easy to Remember (and so Hard to Forget)”
1929	536	“With a Song in My Heart”
1930	671	“Dancing on the Ceiling”
1936	825	“Glad to Be Unhappy”
1942	842	“Ev’rything I’ve Got (Belongs to You)”
1942	908	“Wait Till You See Her”

Additional information on “Manhattan” may be found in:

Listening to Classic American Popular Songs by Allen Forte, Richard Lalli, Gary Chapman

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1 paragraph including the following types of information: film productions, history and performers.

1 paragraph including the following types of information: summary.

1 paragraph including the following types of information: lyric analysis.

1 paragraph including the following types of information: Broadway productions, film productions, history, performers and style discussion.

1 page including the following types of information: history, performers, style discussion and song writer discussion.

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1 paragraph including the following types of information: anecdotal.