You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To

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"You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To"
Single by Dinah Shore
B-side "Manhattan Serenade"
PublishedOctober 5, 1942 (1942-10-05) by Chappell & Co., Inc., New York [1]
ReleasedNovember 20, 1942 (1942-11-20)
RecordedJuly 30, 1942 (1942-07-30) [2]
Venue Something to Shout About 1943
Genre Popular music, Musical film, Pop standard
Length2:51
Label Victor 20-1519
Songwriter(s) Cole Porter

"You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" is a popular song written by Cole Porter for the 1943 film Something to Shout About , where it was introduced by Janet Blair and Don Ameche. The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1943 but lost [3] to "You'll Never Know".

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