"My Funny Valentine"

Rodgers and Hart

Rodgers and Hart had been collaborating as a successful songwriting team for 18 years when they wrote our Song of the Week for a Broadway show called “Babes in Arms.” As was their habit, Lorenz Hart first wrote the lyric, and then Richard Rogers set it to music in his evocative and expressive way. By the early 1930’s the film industry had left silent…