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