Songs
According to Chuck Denison, "My Heart Stood Still" is one of Rodgers and Harts' most enduring hits. Their song "Blue Moon" was used in the 1934 movie Manhattan Melodrama as the title song. The song was re-written and Glen Grey and the Casa Loma Orchestra recorded it in 1936, and that version topped the charts for 3 weeks. Elvis Presley included a haunting version on his self-titled debut album, in 1956. It again was #1 in 1961, this time in the doo-wop style, by the Marcels.
Frederick Nolan writes that "My Romance" (written for Jumbo) "features some of the most elegantly wistful lyrics... is, quite simply, one of the best songs Rodgers and Hart ever wrote."
Other of their many hits include "My Funny Valentine", "Falling in Love with Love", "Here In My Arms", "Mountain Greenery", "My Heart Stood Still", "The Blue Room", "Ten Cents a Dance", "Dancing on the Ceiling", "Lover", "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered", "Mimi", and "Have You Met Miss Jones?",
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—Bible: New Testament, Ephesians 5:17-20.