Song: My Shining Hour

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Music written by

Harold Arlen

Lyrics written by

Johnny Mercer

Language

English

Originals

First performance

My Shining Hour by Joan Leslie with Freddie Slack and his Orchestra in movie The Sky's the Limit (July 13, 1943)

First recording

My Shining Hour by Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Eugenie Baird (October 1, 1943)

Versions

	Title	Performer	Release date
1	My Shining Hour	Joan Leslie with Freddie Slack and his Orchestra	July 13, 1943 (performance date)
2	My Shining Hour	Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Eugenie Baird	1943
3	My Shining Hour	Dave McKenna	1956
4	My Shining Hour	Joy Bryan	1957
5	My Shining Hour	Howard Roberts	1957
6	My Shining Hour	Diahann Carroll with Ralph Burns and His Orchestra	1957
7	My Shining Hour	Chris Connor	1958
8	My Shining Hour	Maureen O'Hara	1959
9	My Shining Hour	June Christy with Orchestra Conducted by Pete Rugolo	1959
10	My Shining Hour	John Coltrane	1960
11	My Shining Hour	André Previn	1961
12	My Shining Hour	Ella Fitzgerald	1961
13	My Shining Hour	Stanley Turrentine	1961
14	My Shining Hour	Nancy Wilson	July 1963
15	My Shining Hour	Mavis Rivers, Shorty Rogers	1963
16	My Shining Hour	Liza Minnelli	March 1965
17	My Shining Hour	Sammy Davis and Count Basie	1965
18	My Shining Hour	Harold Arlen	1966
19	My Shining Hour	Moira Anderson	1968
20	My Shining Hour	Kenny Drew, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen	1974
21	My Shining Hour	Jackie Paris & Anne Marie Moss	1975
22	My Shining Hour	Per Goldschmidt	1976
23	My Shining Hour	Sylvia Syms	1976
24	My Shining Hour	Al Cohn, Barry Harris, Sam Jones, Leroy Williams	1977
25	My Shining Hour	Frank Sinatra	March 1980
26	My Shining Hour	Ernestine Anderson	1981
27	My Shining Hour	Tal Farlow, Hank Jones, Red Norvo, Ray Brown, Jake Hanna	1981
28	My Shining Hour	Jimmy Raney Quartet Featuring Doug Raney	1981
29	My Shining Hour	Richard Rodney Bennett	1983
30	My Shining Hour	Rosemary Clooney	1983
31	My Shining Hour	Joe Pass	1983
32	My Shining Hour	Larry Willis, George Mraz, Al Foster, Kenny Garrett	1988
33	My Shining Hour	Meredith D'Ambrosio	1990
34	My Shining Hour	Benn Clatworthy Quartet	1992
35	My Shining Hour	Spike Robinson and George Masso	1992
36	My Shining Hour	Eileen Farrell	1993
37	My Shining Hour	Chris Flory	1993
38	My Shining Hour	Mary Cleere Haran	1994
39	My Shining Hour	KT Sullivan	November 21, 1995
40	My Shining Hour	Lynne Arriale Trio	1995
41	My Shining Hour	Nnenna Freelon	June 30, 1996
42	My Shining Hour	Bud Shank Sextet	1996
43	My Shining Hour	Maureen McGovern	1996
44	My Shining Hour	John Hicks	1996
45	My Shining Hour	Chico Hamilton Quintet	1996
46	My Shining Hour	Ralph Sharon Trio	1996
47	My Shining Hour	Julie Budd	September 9, 1997
48	My Shining Hour	Orrin Evans	1997
49	My Shining Hour	Joachim Schonecker	1997
50	My Shining Hour	Bob Alberti Trio	1998
51	My Shining Hour	Gail Wynters	1998
52	My Shining Hour	The Joe Ascione Trio	1998
53	My Shining Hour	The James Williams All Stars	2000
54	My Shining Hour	Warren Vaché with Joe Puma, Murray Wall and Eddie Locke	2000
55	My Shining Hour	Bruce Barth	2001
56	My Shining Hour	Lee Gibson	June 2002
57	My Shining Hour	Howard Alden	2002
58	My Shining Hour	Ari Ambrose	2004
59	My Shining Hour	Jerry van Rooyen	2006
60	My Shining Hour	Brian Swartz Trio	2006
61	My Shining Hour	The Bill Charlap Trio	May 22, 2007
62	My Shining Hour	Larry Ham	2008
63	My Shining Hour	Barbara Slater	July 2009
64	My Shining Hour	Allan Vaché	November 9, 2010