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"My Funny Valentine" is a show tune from the 1937 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart coming of age musical Babes in Arms in which it was introduced by teenaged star Mitzi Green. The song became a popular jazz standard, appearing on over 1300 albums performed by over 600 artists. One of them was Chet Baker, [1] for whom it became his signature song.
A number of later musicians have mentioned the album as a source of inspiration. In 2022, singer-songwriter Amos Lee made his own cover of "My Funny Valentine" that was directly inspired by the cover on the album and released the covers album My Ideal: A Tribute to Chet Baker Sings. [17]
Time after Time: The Chet Baker Project, written by playwright James O'Reilly, toured Canada in 2001. [48] Jeroen de Valk has written a biography of Baker; Chet Baker: His Life and Music is the English translation. [49] Other biographies of him include James Gavin's Deep in a Dream—The Long Night of Chet Baker, and Matthew Ruddick's Funny ...
My Ideal: A Tribute to Chet Baker Sings is a 2022 studio album by American musician Amos Lee, ... "My Funny Valentine (For Oskar and Eli)" (lyrics: Lorenz Hart, music
A fourth song, "Visa", was a bebop composition written by Charlie Parker, a musician Baker played with early in his career. Joining Haden and Baker on the album are drummer Billy Higgins and pianist Enrico Pieranunzi. The album is similar in musical programming and band format to the series of albums Haden made with his Quartet West group.
The recording appeared on the Sony Music greatest hits compilation Chet Baker – My Funny Valentine. The Best Of Chet Baker, Chet Baker Sings - The Complete 1953-62 Vocal Studio Recordings on Valentine Records in 2014, the Sony Music compilation The Perfect Jazz Collection in 2010, the RCA Victor album Disco Refrain N.2 released in Italy, and ...
Chet Baker chronology; Symphonically (1985) Chet Baker Sings Again (1986) There'll Never Be Another You ... "My Funny Valentine" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 7:15
Chet Baker covered the tune in his album My Funny Valentine (1980). Dick Haymes - included in his 1956 album Moondreams. [6] Ella Fitzgerald - Verve release Get Happy! (1959), with Herb Ellis on guitar and Lou Levy on piano. Engelbert Humperdinck on his album The Very Thought of You (1995). [7] Frank Sinatra recorded the song for his Moonlight ...