Performance: My Favorite Things

Performed by

Mary Martin, Patricia Neway

Performance date

November 16, 1959

First performed

In stage production The Sound of Music

Comments

Performed by the characters "Maria Rainer" and "The Mother Abbess".

Rating

Song info

Song

My Favorite Things

Music written by

Richard Rodgers

Lyrics written by

Oscar Hammerstein II

First performance

My Favorite Things by Mary Martin, Patricia Neway in stage production The Sound of Music (November 16, 1959)

First release

My Favorite Things by Mary Martin, Patricia Neway on audio album The Sound of Music (1959)

Language

English

Versions

	Title	Performer	Release date
1	My Favorite Things	Mary Martin, Patricia Neway	November 16, 1959 (performance date)
2	My Favorite Things	Mary Martin, Patricia Neway	1959
3	My Favorite Things	The Hi-Lo's	1960
4	My Favorite Things	John Coltrane	1961
5	My Favorite Things	Perry Como	September 1962
6	My Favorite Things	Edmundo Ros	1962
7	My Favorite Things	Mark Murphy	1962
8	My Favorite Things	J.J. Johnson	1963
9	My Favorite Things	Charles Bell and the Contemporary Jazz Quartet	1963
10	My Favorite Things	Jack Jones	1964
11	My Favorite Things	Betty Carter	1964
12	My Favourite Things	Shawn Phillips	1964
13	My Favorite Things	The Supremes	November 1965
14	My Favorite Things	Dick Contino	1965
15	My Favorite Things	Andy Williams	1965
16	My Favorite Things	We Five	1965
17	My Favorite Things	Julie Andrews	1965
18	My Favorite Things	Tennessee Ernie Ford	March 7, 1966
19	My Favorite Things	Cy Walter	1966
20	My Favorite Things	Sadao Watanabe	1966
21	My Favorite Things	Dionne Warwick	May 1967
22	My Favorite Things	Barbra Streisand	October 1967
23	My Favorite Things	Tony Bennett	November 6, 1968
24	My Favorite Things	Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass	1968
25	My Favorite Things	Johnny Mathis	September 1969
26	My Favorite Things	Julie Budd	1969
27	My Favorite Things	Kenny Clarke Francy Boland Big Band	1969
28	My Favorite Things	Alice Coltrane	1972
29	My Favorite Things	Charles Earland	1972
30	My Favorite Things	McCoy Tyner	1973
31	My Favorite Things	Gene Russell	1973
32	My Favorite Things	Johnny Hartman	1973
33	My Favorite Things	Sheila Jordan	1976
34	My Favorite Things	Sun Ra Arkestra	1978
35	My Favorite Things	The Mormon Tabernacle Choir	1979
36	My Favorite Things	The Louis Hayes Group	1979
37	My Favorite Things	Kenny Rogers	October 1981
38	My Favourite Things	Eva Maria	1981
39	My Favorite Things	Al Jarreau	1982
40	My Favorite Things	The Tony Rice Unit	1983
41	My Favorite Things	Manhattan Jazz Quintet	1984
42	My Favorite Things	Stanley Jordan	1987
43	My Favorite Things	The Boston Pops Orchestra	1990
44	My Favourite Things	Vanessa-Mae	October 1991
45	My Favorite Things	Pink Passion	1991
46	My Favorite Things	Lorrie Morgan	November 1993
47	My Favorite Things	Ned Spurlock	1993
48	My Favorite Things	David Moss	1993
49	My Favorite Things	Emile Pandolfi	1993
50	My Favourite Things	Blueboy	1993
51	My Favorite Things	Micky Dolenz	1994
52	My Favorite Things	The Whispers	1994
53	My Favorite Things	Mike Strickland	1994
54	My Favorite Things	Sandra Booker	1994
55	My Favorite Things	The Erika Jazz Trio	1994
56	A Cockeyed Optimist/My Favorite Things	Judy Kaye	1995
57	My Favorite Things	John McLaughlin With Elvin Jones and Joey DeFrancesco	1995
58	My Favorite Things	David Huntsinger	1995
59	My Favorite Things	Chiaki Ogasawara	1995
60	My Favorite Things	Weslia Whitfield with the Mike Greensill Trio	1995
61	My Favorite Things	Luther Vandross	1995
62	My Favorite Things	Judy Niemack	1996
63	My Favorite Things	OMC	October 14, 1997
64	My Favorite Things	Harry Allen	1997
65	My Favorite Things	SWV	1997
66	My Favorite Things	Nancy Allen	1997
67	Footprints/My Favorite Things	Tierney Sutton	January 13, 1998
68	My Favorite Things	Benny Golson & James Carter	June 19, 1998
69	My Favorite Things	Cyrus Chestnut, Featuring Anita Baker	September 1998
70	My Favorite Things	Eric Doney	1998
71	Favorite Things	Me First and the Gimme Gimmes	May 18, 1999
72	My Favorite Things	Catherine Dupuis	May 1999
73	My Favorite Things	Skerik & The Keefus Trio	1999
74	My Favorite Things	Ron Kaplan	1999
75	My Favorite Things	Denise Jannah	2000
76	My Favorite Things	Cindy Horstman	2000
77	My Favorite Things	Don Braden	2001
78	My Favorite Things	Kari Gaffney	2001
79	My Favorite Things	John Greaves	2001
80	My Favorite Things	Charles Earland With Najee	June 18, 2002
81	My Favorite Things	Cody Moffett	August 6, 2002
82	My Favorite Things	Acoustic Eidolon	August 2002
83	My Favorite Things	Barry Manilow	November 12, 2002
84	Favourite Things	Big Brovaz	2002
85	My Favorite Things	Lisa Lindo	2002
86	My Favorite Things 1	Marc Copland Trio	2002
87	My Favorite Things	Chris Minh Doky	January 6, 2003
88	My Favorite Things	Outkast	2003
89	My Favorite Things	Wayne Raglan	2003
90	My Favorite Things	Bill Harris [2]	2003
91	My Favourite Things	Junior Jazz	2003
92	My Favorite Things	Kitty Margolis	March 2, 2004
93	My Favourite Things	The Swamp Coolers	August 12, 2005
94	My Favorite Things	The Larry McDonough Quartet	2005
95	My Favorite Things	Benny Weinbeck	2005
96	My Favorite Things	Anita Baker	2005
97	My Favorite Things	Lisa Hilton	2005
98	My Favorite Things	The Brian Setzer Orchestra	2005
99	My Favorite Things	Wing	2005
100	The Sound of Music Medley	John Cassel	2005
101	My Favorite Things	Yolanda Adams	October 9, 2007
102	My Favorite Things	Turtle Island Quartet	2007
103	My Favorite Things	Pete Huttlinger	2007
104	My Favorite Things	Diane Schuur	February 26, 2008
105	My Favorite Things	George Kahn	2008
106	My Favorite Things	Jane Norman	2008
107	My Favorite Things	Brenda Kaye Pierce	August 18, 2009
108	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/My Favorite Things	Michael John Hall	2009
109	My Favorite Things	Dave Byron	2009
110	My Favorite Things	Pomplamoose	March 15, 2010
111	My Favorite Things	Youn Sun Nah	September 2010
112	My Favorite Things	Leif Shires	October 5, 2010
113	A Few of My Favorite Things	Benise	2010
114	My Favorite Things	David Kelly	2010
115	My Favorite Things	FailedSitcom	2010
116	My Favourite Things	Robi Botos Quintet	2010
117	My Favorite Things	Brad Mehldau	February 22, 2011
118	My Favorite Things	Jewel	August 16, 2011
119	My Favorite Things	Kathy Troccoli	October 11, 2011
120	My Favorite Things	Nicole Henry	October 25, 2011
121	My Favorite Things	Carole King	November 1, 2011
122	My Favorite Things	Ara Malikian	2011
123	My Favorite Things	Deana Martin	2011
124	My Favorite Things	Chip & Les	2011
125	My Favorite Things	Lisa B	2011
126	My Favorite Things	Chris Bauer	2011
127	My Favorite Things	The Eastern Sea	November 26, 2012
128	My Favorite Things	六弦倶楽部 With Farah	March 20, 2013