My Favorite Things

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"My Favorite Things" is a popular show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music," later widely known as a jazz standard and holiday favorite.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf jazz standard
popular song
show tune
song
associatedWithHoliday Christmas
associatedWithHolidaySeason winter holidays
associatedWork The Sound of Music (1965 film soundtrack)
linked to: The Sound of Music

The Sound of Music (original cast recording)
linked to: The Sound of Music
composer Richard Rodgers
countryOfOrigin United States
filmAdaptationInclusion The Sound of Music (1965 film)
linked to: The Sound of Music
firstAppearance stage musical The Sound of Music
linked to: The Sound of Music
fromAct Act I of The Sound of Music
linked to: The Sound of Music
genre Christmas music
jazz
show tune
hasCulturalStatus holiday standard
standard of the Great American Songbook
hasForm verse-chorus song form
keyFeatures waltz time
language English
lyricalTheme comfort in listing pleasant things
coping with fear
optimism
lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II
musicalTheatrePremiereYear 1959
musicBy Richard Rodgers
notableJazzAlbum My Favorite Things (John Coltrane album)
notableJazzRecordingArtist John Coltrane
notablePerformer Barbra Streisand
Herb Alpert
John Coltrane
Julie Andrews
Kenny Burrell
McCoy Tyner
Tony Bennett
originalBroadwayProductionOpeningDate 1959-11-16
originalContext sung by Maria and the children during a thunderstorm
originalPerformerCharacter Maria
von Trapp children
linked to: von Trapp family
originalStageProductionLocation Broadway
originalStageProductionTheatre Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
partOfMusical The Sound of Music
publisher Williamson Music
releasedAsSingleBy John Coltrane
timeSignature 3/4
title My Favorite Things
wordsBy Oscar Hammerstein II
yearOfNotableJazzRecording 1960

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Richard Rodgers notableWork My Favorite Things
Richard Rodgers notableWork My Favorite Things (song)
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Richard Rodgers notableWork My Favorite Things (popular song)
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Rodgers and Hammerstein wroteSong My Favorite Things
The Sound of Music hasSong My Favorite Things
Maria Rainer singsSong My Favorite Things
My Favorite Things title My Favorite Things
Theme from "My Favorite Things" (revised) basedOn "My Favorite Things"
linked to: My Favorite Things
Theme from "My Favorite Things" (revised) basedOn show tune "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music
linked to: My Favorite Things
Theme from "My Favorite Things" (revised) hasMelodicSource "My Favorite Things"
linked to: My Favorite Things
Theme from "My Favorite Things" (revised) derivesMelodyFrom "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music
linked to: My Favorite Things
John Coltrane notableWork My Favorite Things
Wrapped in Red hasPart My Favorite Things
7 Rings interpolates My Favorite Things
subject linked to: song "7 Rings"
Maria Rainer singsSong My Favorite Things
Nonnberg Abbey (The Sound of Music) settingFor “My Favorite Things” (Mother Abbess reprise scene in film adaptation)
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My Favorite Things track My Favorite Things
7 rings basedOn My Favorite Things
Louisa von Trapp singsSong My Favorite Things