You and the Night and the Music

"You and the Night and the Music" is a popular song composed by Arthur Schwartz with lyrics by Howard Dietz.

For the albums, see You and the Night and the Music (Mal Waldron album) and You and the Night and the Music (Helen Merrill album).
"You and the Night and the Music"
Song
Published1934
GenreJazz standard
Songwriter(s)Composer: Arthur Schwartz
Lyricist: Howard Dietz

The song was debuted in the Broadway show Revenge with Music. The show originally opened on November 28, 1934, ran for 22 performances, after which it closed. It then reopened on December 24, 1934, and ran for an additional 135 performances.[1] Authors Caryl Brahms and Ned Sherrin, in their book Song by Song: 14 Great Lyric Writers, say that “...the musical yielded two enduring hits and a profit although it was an artistic failure.”

Notable Recordings

Popular recordings in 1935 were by Libby Holman and by Leo Reisman (vocal by Phil Dewey). [2] The song has since become an enduring jazz standard with notable recordings by Frank Sinatra, Bill Evans, Chet Baker, Stan Getz, Keith Jarrett, Julie London, Jamie Cullum, and Lennie Niehaus.

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References
  1. "Revenge with Music | IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information". IBDB. Retrieved 2015-08-14.
  2. Whitburn, Joel (1986). Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. p. 615. ISBN 0-89820-083-0.

See also
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