Standard of the Day

By Herman Hupfeld 1931 For Standard of the Day's 300th post, I give you one of America's finest songs of all time, and one which is ...

By Delores Silver 1954 The song that would become Sinatra's biggest hit of the 1950s has a very mysterious back story. Written by 25-yea...

By Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II 1939 A remarkable song from the master, Kern--breathtakingly beautiful, and nearly operatic in ton...

By Nat King Cole 1945 Introduced in 1945 by the King Cole trio, this up-tempo jumper was actually penned by Nat King Cole himself. It's ...

By Ray Noble 1934 British bandleader Noble composed this endurant and poignant standard, and introduced it with his own orchestra, featuring...

By Charles Warfield & Clarence Williams 1919 This blues and jazz classic was not officially introduced until 1922, when it was first rec...

By Sammy Fain & Paul Francis Webster 1955 This was Fain & Webster's second composition to win the Oscar, following "Secr...

By Nacio Herb Brown & Arthur Freed 1935 The only hit song to ever emerge from a Marx Brothers movie, this Brown/Freed composition was in...

By Richard A. Whiting & Raymond B. Egan 1919 Did you know that this song single-handedly kicked off the modern phenomenon of popular mus...

By Fred E. Ahlert & Roy Turk 1931 An extremely versatile standard that has experienced three major periods of popularity and been record...

By Irving Kahal & Harry Richman 1931 Introduced by the consummate Frenchman Maurice Chevalier in 1931, this song is a wonderful example ...

By Bob Russell & Carl Sigman 1946 Elling and Sigman had the enviable benefit of having this song introduced by the one and only Billie H...

By Harold Arlen & Ted Koehler 1932 A popular jazz and blues standard by the Arlen/Koehler team, which as far as I know was not part of t...

By Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II 1945 A lilting, delicate melody highlights this late Rodgers composition, from his second m...