With a Song in My Heart (song)

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"With A Song in My Heart" is a popular song.

The music was written by Richard Rodgers, the lyrics by Lorenz Hart.

The song was published in 1929 and introduced by John Hundley and Lillian Taiz in the Broadway musical Spring is Here of that year. The following year, it was sung in the Hollywood musical version of that show by Bernice Claire and Frank Albertson.

In 1933, it was included in a two-reel version of the film re-titled Yours Sincerely, part of the Broadway Brevities series, starring Lanny Ross.

In the 1944 Hollywood musical This Is the Life, it was sung by Donald O'Connor and Susanna Foster. It was included in the 1948 musical film, Words and Music, a biography of Rodgers and Hart, where it was sung by Perry Como.

It was also heard, sung by Doris Day, in the 1950 Hollywood musical Young Man with a Horn. In the 1951 Hollywood musical Painting the Clouds with Sunshine it was sung by Dennis Morgan and Lucille Norman.

It was the title song in the 1952 Hollywood musical With a Song in My Heart, a biographical movie about Jane Froman, in which it was sung by Froman on the soundtrack for Susan Hayward.