You Are Too Beautiful

You Are Too Beautiful is a 1932 song written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart for the 1933 film Hallelujah, I'm a Bum, where it was sung by Al Jolson.^[1][2] It became a pop and jazz standard in the 1940s, with a notable recording made on August 3, 1945 by Dick Haymes (Decca 23750).^[2][3]

Other recordings

Other versions include those by:^[2]

• Frank Sinatra (1945)
• Bing Crosby (1953), found on compilation albums, among others Through the Years, Vol. 6: 1953–1954
• Cannonball Adderley on Julian Cannonball Adderley and Strings (1955)
• Thelonious Monk on The Unique Thelonious Monk (1956)
• Warne Marsh on Music for Prancing (1957)
• David Whitfield on Alone (1961)
• John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman on John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman (1963)
• Sarah Vaughan on Crazy and Mixed Up (1982)

References

1. Forte, Allen (1995). The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924–1950. Princeton University Press. pp. 193–196. ISBN 0-691-04399-X.
2. "You Are Too Beautiful". JazzStandards. Retrieved September 19, 2018.
3. Sullivan, Steve (2017). Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings: Volume 3. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 197–198. ISBN 978-1-4422-5449-7.