Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall in Love) was writted Cole Porter for the 1928 Comedy with Music Paris; it replaced "Let’s Misbehave" before the New York opening.
As Time Goes By is by Herman Hupfeld for the 1931 musical show Everybody’s Welcome. But it was made famous by the 1942 film Casablanca. Since then it has been used repeatedly, notably in the 1952 musical film She’s Working Her Way Through College.
Sea of Love is a song written in 1957 by George Khoury and John Philip Baptiste. In its 1959 recording by Baptiste (who recorded under the name Phil Phillips), the song reaced #1 on the Billboard R & B chart, and #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. It has been covered by a number of artists. Our version was arranged by Jerry Nowak according to the1984 recording by The Honeydrippers.
Almost Like Being in Love is from the1947 Lerner and Loewe show Brigadoon. Tommy has stumbled in to the town of Brigadoon in the Scottish Highlands, which appears only once in a hundred years. He and the local lass Fiona have discovered a fondness for each other. The song was also used as the closing song in the 1993 film Groundhog Day.
He Loves and She Loves is a 1927 song composed by George Gershwin, with lyric by Ira Gershwin. It replaced "How Long Has This Been Going On?" in Funny Face.
Composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Lorenz Hart wrote about 30 musical shows between 1919 and Hart’s death in 1943. During most of that era, musicals were mostly revues and what story there was existed as an excuse for the singers and dancers to show their stuff. In 1929 the duo collaborated on Spring Is Here, which included With a Song in My Heart.
I’ve Got You Under My Skin is a Cole Porter song from the 1936 film Born to Dance, which starred Eleanor Powell and James Stewart. It was the first film in which Stewart sang. This song is sung by the film’s femme fatale, and Powell’s rival, Virginia Bruce. The film also introduced the song "You’d Be So Easy to Love", sung by Powell and Stewart.
This Is a Fine Romance (1936: w. Dorothy Fields; m. Jerome Kern; from the film Swing Time; arr. Lou Hayward) Swing Time is an RKO musical comedy film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. The plot is fairly weak: basically, Fred Astaire is engaged, but needs $25,000 to marry his fiancee, so he goes to New York, and meets Ginger Rogers, falls in love, and marries her instead. The film contains some of the best dance numbers ever filmed. In the film, "This Is a Fine Romance" is sung alternately by Astaire and Rogers. (Another song written for that film is "The Way You Look Tonight": when lyricist Dorothy Fields first heard Kern’s tune, she was moved to tears by its beauty.)
In 1927 Hoagy Carmichael wrote a peppy jazz number called "Stardust", which, he said, was inspired by the improvisations of Bix Beiderbecke. The tune occurred to Carmichael while walking around at Indiana University. It received moderate praise. But in 1929, he reworked the piece as a slow ballad, with a lyric by Mitchell Parish (who wrote other lyrics for tunes that had already been written such as Leroy Anderson’s "Sleigh Ride"). His recording company wouldn’t record it because they already had a recording of that song, so he got Isham Jones’s band to record it. It was a hit, and soon had over two dozen recordings. It was used in the musical film The Eddy Duchin Story. Star Dust has been called the finest love ballad ever written.
The song All er Nothin’ is from the 1943 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! It occurs near the end of Act II, when Will Parker has proposed to Ado Annie. Will insists that Annie give up her flirtatious ways without promising to do the same for her. But by the end of the song Annie takes will on her own terms. (The character of Will was based somewhat vaguely on Will Rogers.)
Wedding Bell Blues (1966: wm. Laura Nyro; most popular in 1969)
Buddy’s Blues (The God-Why-Don’t-You-Love-Me Blues) (1971: wm. Stephen Sondheim, from Follies)
He Plays the Violin (1969: wm. Sherman Edwards; from 1776)
Getting Married Today (wm. Stephen Sondheim; from Company)
Hot Chocolate! (2008: w. Andy Beck & Brian Fisher; m Andy Beck)
I Love Trash is a song by Jerry Moss for the Sesame Street Muppet character Oscar the Grouch. Oscar lives in a trash can.
Lennon & McCartney on Love (wm. John Lennon and Paul McCartney; arr. Lou Hayward)
The Computer Song (1984: wm. Linda Williams)
George and Ira Gershwin wrote Blah-Blah-Blah for the 1931 film Delicious.
I Remember It Well (1958: w. Alan J. Lerner; m. Frederick Loewe; from the 1958 film Gigi. During the Philadelphia tryout of the Lerner and Loewe show My Fair Lady, one of MGM’s producers Arthur Freed suggested to Lerner a movie musical based on Colette’s novella Gigi. Lerner was intrigued, but Loewe had vowed never to write for the movies. However, he was charmed by the book and agreed to do it. Freed sent Lerner and Loewe to Paris to write the songs, where they completed all but two. Even though the story was considered controversial (Gigi is studying to be a high-class whore!), the movie was a huge success, winning all nine oscars for which it was nominated, plus an honorary oscar for Maurice Chevalier.
All the Things You Are is a song with words by Oscar Hammerstein II and music by Jerome Kern, for the 1940 show Very Warm for May. The show was not a success, but the song was.
Get Me to the Church on Time (1956: w. Alan J. Lerner; m. Frederick Loewe; from My Fair Lady)
Sunrise, Sunset is the wedding song from the1964 musical Fiddler on the Roof, with words by Sheldon Harnack and music by Jerry Bock. The story is based on the tales of Sholem Aleichem, especially "Tevye the Dairyman". The show well captures Aleichem’s technique of "laughter through tears."
From This Moment On was originally written for the 1950 show Out Of This World, but not used; it was later inserted in the film version of Kiss Me Kate, and was used in the 1999 Broadway revival.Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing is from the 1955 film with the same title. The words are by Paul Francis Webster and the music by Sammy Fain; this arrangement is by Roy Ringwald. The story of the film is set in Hong Kong, and it is sung "on a high and windy hill".