I’m Beginning to See the Light

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"I’m Beginning to See the Light" is a popular jazz standard from the 1940s, famously associated with Duke Ellington and covered by numerous vocalists and big bands.

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Label Occurrences
I’m Beginning to See the Light canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf song ⓘ
composer Don George ⓘ
Duke Ellington ⓘ
Harry James ⓘ
Johnny Hodges ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States ⓘ
decade 1940s ⓘ
firstRecordingArtist Harry James and His Orchestra ⓘ
genre jazz ⓘ
swing ⓘ
hasForm 32-bar song form ⓘ
hasNotableRecording Bobby Darin version ⓘ
Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington version ⓘ
Frank Sinatra version ⓘ
Harry James and His Orchestra version ⓘ
Nat King Cole version ⓘ
Peggy Lee version ⓘ
The Ink Spots version ⓘ
Tony Bennett version ⓘ
hasTitleWord Beginning ⓘ
Light ⓘ
influencedBy swing era big band style ⓘ
isStandardRepertoireFor big bands ⓘ
jazz vocalists ⓘ
language English ⓘ
lyricalTheme falling in love ⓘ
romantic realization ⓘ
lyricist Don George ⓘ
notablePerformer Bobby Darin ⓘ
Duke Ellington ⓘ
Ella Fitzgerald ⓘ
Frank Sinatra ⓘ
Louis Armstrong ⓘ
Nat King Cole ⓘ
Peggy Lee ⓘ
The Ink Spots ⓘ
Tony Bennett ⓘ
partOf Great American Songbook ⓘ
performanceContext ballrooms ⓘ
concert halls ⓘ
jazz clubs ⓘ
publicationYear 1944 ⓘ
style big band ⓘ
typicalInstrumentation big band with vocal ⓘ
typicalTempo medium-up swing ⓘ
usedAs vocal feature for big bands ⓘ

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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sophisticated Ladies → includesSong → I’m Beginning to See the Light ⓘ
Digital Duke → hasPart → I’m Beginning to See the Light ⓘ
Accentuate the Positive → hasTrack → I’m Beginning to See the Light ⓘ
subject linked to: album "Accentuate the Positive"