Great American Songbook

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The Great American Songbook is a canon of influential early-20th-century American popular songs and jazz standards, primarily from Broadway and Hollywood, that have become enduring classics in vocal and instrumental performance.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf musical canon ⓘ
repertoire ⓘ
alsoKnownAs American Standards ⓘ
Standards repertoire ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States ⓘ
culturalSignificance considered a core repertoire for jazz musicians ⓘ
forms a standard repertoire for cabaret and traditional pop singers ⓘ
describedAs canon of influential American popular songs ⓘ
collection of enduring jazz standards ⓘ
floruit 1920s ⓘ
1930s ⓘ
1940s ⓘ
1950s ⓘ
genre jazz ⓘ
popular music ⓘ
show tunes ⓘ
hasNotablePerformer Billie Holiday ⓘ
Bing Crosby ⓘ
Ella Fitzgerald ⓘ
Frank Sinatra ⓘ
Louis Armstrong ⓘ
Mel Tormé ⓘ
Nat King Cole ⓘ
Sarah Vaughan ⓘ
Tony Bennett ⓘ
hasNotableSong All the Things You Are ⓘ
Embraceable You ⓘ
I Got Rhythm ⓘ
It Had to Be You ⓘ
Misty ⓘ
My Funny Valentine ⓘ
Night and Day ⓘ
Over the Rainbow ⓘ
Someone to Watch Over Me ⓘ
Stardust ⓘ
Summertime ⓘ
The Way You Look Tonight ⓘ
They Can't Take That Away from Me ⓘ
hasNotableSongwriter Cole Porter ⓘ
Duke Ellington ⓘ
Fats Waller ⓘ
George Gershwin ⓘ
George M. Cohan ⓘ
Harold Arlen ⓘ
Hoagy Carmichael ⓘ
Ira Gershwin ⓘ
Irving Berlin ⓘ
Jerome Kern ⓘ
Jimmy Van Heusen ⓘ
Johnny Mercer ⓘ
Lorenz Hart ⓘ
Oscar Hammerstein II ⓘ
Richard Rodgers ⓘ
hasPart Broadway show tune ⓘ
Hollywood film song ⓘ
Tin Pan Alley song ⓘ
jazz standard ⓘ
inception early 20th century ⓘ
influencedBy Broadway theatre ⓘ
linked to: Broadway theater

Hollywood film musicals ⓘ
Tin Pan Alley ⓘ
linked to: Tin Pan Alley era
language English ⓘ
timePeriod World War II era ⓘ
interwar period ⓘ
postwar era ⓘ
typicalForm song ⓘ
usedIn instrumental performance ⓘ
vocal performance ⓘ

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Get Happy → partOfTradition → Great American Songbook ⓘ
Cole Porter → movement → Great American Songbook ⓘ
Stardust → partOf → Great American Songbook ⓘ
Stardust → isStandardIn → American popular song repertoire ⓘ
linked to: Great American Songbook
Verve Records → catalogIncludes → Great American Songbook recordings ⓘ
linked to: Great American Songbook
Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album → associatedStyle → Great American Songbook repertoire ⓘ
linked to: Great American Songbook
Baby, It’s Cold Outside → isStandard → Great American Songbook ⓘ
Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' → isStandardIn → American songbook ⓘ
linked to: Great American Songbook
As Time Goes By → musicalEra → Great American Songbook ⓘ
As Time Goes By → partOf → Great American Songbook ⓘ
Harold Arlen → movement → Great American Songbook ⓘ
Mountain Greenery → isStandardIn → Great American Songbook ⓘ
subject linked to: Mountain Greenery (song)
Where or When → isPartOf → Great American Songbook ⓘ
subject linked to: Where or When (song)
Manhattan (song) → partOf → American popular songbook ⓘ
linked to: Great American Songbook
Manhattan (song) → isStandardIn → Great American Songbook ⓘ
Isn't It Romantic? → partOf → Great American Songbook ⓘ
I Could Write a Book → includedIn → Great American Songbook repertoire ⓘ
linked to: Great American Songbook
Thou Swell → partOf → Great American Songbook ⓘ
subject linked to: Thou Swell (jazz standard)
Thou Swell → associatedWithEra → Golden Age of American popular song ⓘ
subject linked to: Thou Swell (jazz standard)
linked to: Great American Songbook
Lover (jazz standard) → partOf → Great American Songbook ⓘ
Blue Moon → partOf → Great American Songbook ⓘ
My Funny Valentine → isStandardIn → Great American Songbook ⓘ
The Lady Is a Tramp → era → Great American Songbook ⓘ
Isn't It Romantic? → associatedWith → Great American Songbook ⓘ
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered → partOf → Great American Songbook ⓘ
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered → includedIn → Great American Songbook ⓘ
This Can't Be Love → era → Great American Songbook ⓘ
Have You Met Miss Jones? → partOfRepertoire → Great American Songbook ⓘ
I Could Write a Book → hasStyle → Great American Songbook ⓘ
I Could Write a Book → partOf → Great American Songbook ⓘ
With a Song in My Heart → hasInfluenced → American popular songbook ⓘ
linked to: Great American Songbook
With a Song in My Heart → includedIn → The Great American Songbook ⓘ
linked to: Great American Songbook
With a Song in My Heart → isPartOfTradition → Tin Pan Alley song tradition ⓘ
linked to: Great American Songbook
Thou Swell → associatedWithMovement → Great American Songbook ⓘ
Johnny One Note → era → Great American Songbook ⓘ
You Took Advantage of Me → includedIn → Great American Songbook ⓘ
Lover → partOf → Great American Songbook ⓘ
My Heart Stood Still → partOf → Great American Songbook ⓘ
It Might as Well Be Spring → era → Golden Age of American popular song ⓘ
linked to: Great American Songbook
Falling in Love with Love → isStandard → Great American Songbook ⓘ
First Lady of Song → associatedWith → Great American Songbook ⓘ
Ella and Louis → features → Great American Songbook standards ⓘ
linked to: Great American Songbook
You Are My Lucky Star → partOfTradition → Great American Songbook ⓘ
Sophie Milman → hasGenreRepertoire → Great American Songbook ⓘ
I Got Rhythm → includedIn → The Great American Songbook ⓘ
linked to: Great American Songbook
Embraceable You → partOf → Great American Songbook ⓘ
Bidin' My Time → partOf → Great American Songbook ⓘ
Night and Day → partOf → Great American Songbook ⓘ
I Get a Kick Out of You → includedIn → Great American Songbook ⓘ