Jazz Standards Songs and Instrumentals (Why Do I Love You?)

Why Do I Love You? (1927)

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.

Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern
Year	Rank	Title
1939	2	“All the Things You Are”
1932	159	“The Song Is You”
1927	236	“Ol’ Man River”
1927	339	“Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man”
1929	377	“Why Was I Born”
1927	431	“Why Do I Love You?”
1937	471	“The Folks Who Live on the Hill”
1925	607	“Who”
1946	657	“Nobody Else but Me”
1927	936	“Make Believe”

Dorothy Fields, Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern and Jimmy McHugh
Year	Rank	Title
1935	999	“I Won’t Dance”

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