Editing Rodgers and Hart (section)

== Songs ==
One of Rodgers and Hart's best known songs, [[Blue Moon (1934 song)|"Blue Moon"]], was originally called "Prayer." It was to be sung by Jean Harlow in the 1934 film ''[[Hollywood Party (1934 film)|Hollywood Party]]'', and was cut. Hart then wrote a new lyric, intended to be the title song for ''[[Manhattan Melodrama]]'' (1934), which was cut again. A third lyric, "The Bad in Every Man," was used in the film.<ref>{{cite book|title=America's Songs|author=Philip George Furia & Michael L. Lasser|publisher=Routledge|year=2006|isbn=0415972469|page=117}}</ref> At the urging of Jack Robbins, head of MGM's music publishing unit, Hart wrote a fourth lyric as a standalone song.<ref>{{cite book|title=When Broadway Went to Hollywood|first=Ethan|last=Mordden|year=2016|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780199395422}}</ref> Glen Grey and the Casa Loma Orchestra recorded it in 1936, and that version topped the charts for three weeks. [[Elvis Presley]] included a haunting version on his self-titled debut album, in 1956. It again was #1 in 1961, this time in the [[doo-wop]] style, by [[The Marcels]]. [[Bob Dylan]] included his Nashville-inflected version of the song on his ''Self Portrait'' album of 1970.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.bobdylan.com/us/music/self-portrait | title=Self Portrait &#124; the Official Bob Dylan Site }}</ref>

Frederick Nolan writes that "[[My Romance (song)|My Romance]]" (written for ''Jumbo'') "features some of the most elegantly wistful lyrics...[it] is, quite simply, one of the best songs Rodgers and Hart ever wrote."<ref>Nolan, p. 206</ref>

Other of their hits include "[[My Funny Valentine]]", "[[Falling in Love with Love]]", "[[Here In My Arms]]", "[[Mountain Greenery]]", "[[My Heart Stood Still]]", "[[Blue Room (1926 song)|The Blue Room]]", "[[Ten Cents a Dance]]", "[[Dancing on the Ceiling (1930 song)|Dancing on the Ceiling]]", "[[Lover (Rodgers and Hart song)|Lover]]", "[[Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered]]", "[[Mimi (song)|Mimi]]", and "[[Have You Met Miss Jones?]]".<ref>[http://songwritershalloffame.org/exhibits/bio/C66 Hart Biography] songwritershalloffame.org, accessed April 5, 2009</ref>

=== List of well-known songs ===
* {{cite book|title=The Complete Lyrics of Lorenz Hart|editor=Dorothy Hart and Robert Kimball|publisher=Da Capo Press|year=1995|isbn=0-306-80667-3}}

*(1925) "[[Manhattan (song)|Manhattan]]" and "[[Mountain Greenery]]" (from ''[[The Garrick Gaieties]]'')
*(1925) "[[Here in My Arms|Here In My Arms]]" (from ''[[Dearest Enemy]]'')
*(1926) "[[Blue Room (1926 song)|The Blue Room]]" (from ''[[The Girl Friend]]'')
*(1927) "[[Thou Swell]]" (from ''[[A Connecticut Yankee (musical)|A Connecticut Yankee]]'')
*(1927) "[[My Heart Stood Still]]" (from ''One Dam Thing After Another'')
*(1928) "[[You Took Advantage of Me]]" (from ''[[Present Arms (musical)|Present Arms]]'')
*(1929) "A Ship Without a Sail" (from ''Me For You'')
*(1930) "Yours Sincerely" and "[[With a Song in My Heart (song)|With a Song in My Heart]]" (from ''[[Spring Is Here (film)|Spring Is Here]]'')
*(1930) "[[Ten Cents a Dance]]" and "[[Dancing on the Ceiling (1930 song)|Dancing on the Ceiling]]" (from ''[[Simple Simon (musical)|Simple Simon]]'')
*(1931) "[[I've Got Five Dollars|I've Got Five Dollars]]" (from ''[[America's Sweetheart (musical)|America's Sweetheart]]'')
*(1932) "[[Lover (Rodgers and Hart song)|Lover]]", "[[Mimi (song)|Mimi]]", and "[[Isn't It Romantic?]]", (from ''[[Love Me Tonight]]'')
*(1932) "[[You Are Too Beautiful]]" (from ''[[Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (film)|Hallelujah, I'm a Bum]]'')
*(1934) "[[Blue Moon (1934 song)|Blue Moon]]"
*(1935) "[[Little Girl Blue (song)|Little Girl Blue]]", "[[The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (1935 song)|The Most Beautiful Girl in the World]]" (from ''[[Jumbo (musical)|Jumbo]]'')
*(1935) "[[It's Easy to Remember]]" (from ''[[Mississippi (film)|Mississippi]]'')
*(1936) "[[There's a Small Hotel]]", and "[[Glad to Be Unhappy]]" (from ''[[On Your Toes]]'')
*(1937) "[[Where or When]]", "[[I Wish I Were in Love Again]]", "[[My Funny Valentine]]", "[[Johnny One Note]]", and "[[The Lady Is a Tramp]]" (from ''[[Babes in Arms]]'')
*(1937) "[[Have You Met Miss Jones?]]" (from ''[[I'd Rather Be Right]]'')
*(1938) "[[This Can't Be Love (song)|This Can't Be Love]]", "[[Falling in Love with Love]]", and "[[Sing for Your Supper|Sing For Your Supper]]" (from ''[[The Boys from Syracuse]]'')
*(1938) "[[Spring Is Here]]" and "[[I'll Tell the Man in the Street]]" (from ''[[I Married an Angel]]'')
*(1939) "[[I Didn't Know What Time It Was]]", "[[I Like to Recognize the Tune]]", "[[Give It Back to the Indians]]" (from ''[[Too Many Girls (musical)|Too Many Girls]]'')
*(1940) "[[It Never Entered My Mind]]" (from ''[[Higher and Higher (musical)|Higher and Higher]]'')
*(1940) "[[Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered]]", "[[I Could Write a Book]]", and "Zip" (from ''[[Pal Joey (musical)|Pal Joey]]'')
*(1942) "[[Wait Till You See Her]]", "Nobody's Heart Belongs to Me", "[[Ev'rything I've Got]]" (from ''[[By Jupiter]]'')
*(1943) "[[To Keep My Love Alive]]" (from ''[[A Connecticut Yankee (musical)|A Connecticut Yankee]]'')