"The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" | |
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Song | |
Published | 1935 |
Genre | Showtune |
Composer(s) | Richard Rodgers |
Lyricist(s) | Lorenz Hart |
"The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" is a show tune from the 1935 Rodgers and Hart musical Jumbo when it was introduced by Gloria Grafton and William J. McCartney. [1]
Recordings by Ted Straeter (#27) and by Tommy Dorsey (#21) reached the Billboard Top 40 charts in 1952/53. [2] Other recordings include those by Sonny Rollins, Les and Larry Elgart, Vaughn Monroe, Vic Damone, Tony Bennett, and Frank Sinatra. [3]
In the 1962 MGM movie, Jumbo , the song was sung by renowned Los Angeles session singer, Jimmy Joyce, replacing the voice of actor Stephen Boyd.
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