I Wish I Were in Love Again

"I Wish I Were in Love Again"
Song from Babes in Arms
Published	1937
Writer	Lorenz Hart
Composer	Richard Rodgers

"I Wish I Were in Love Again" is a show tune from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical Babes in Arms. Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney performed it in the 1948 film Words and Music. Garland released it as a single in 1946 and again in 1948 as a b-side with "Johnny One Note."^[1]

Notable recordings

Judy Garland - 1946 Decca single
Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook (1956)
Frank Sinatra - A Swingin' Affair! (1957)
Julie Andrews - Broadway: The Music of Richard Rodgers (1994)
Susannah McCorkle - From Broken Hearts to Blue Skies (1999)
Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now (2000)
Audra McDonald - Happy Songs (2002)

References

↑ Edwards, Anne (1975). Judy Garland. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0671802283.

Rodgers and Hart

Musicals	The Garrick Gaieties Dearest Enemy The Girl Friend Peggy-Ann A Connecticut Yankee Present Arms Ever Green Simple Simon America's Sweetheart Jumbo On Your Toes Babes in Arms I'd Rather Be Right The Boys from Syracuse I Married an Angel Too Many Girls Higher and Higher Pal Joey By Jupiter

Songs	"Manhattan" "Mountain Greenery" "Here in My Arms" "Blue Room" "My Heart Stood Still" "Thou Swell" "To Keep My Love Alive" "You Took Advantage of Me" "With a Song in My Heart" "A Ship Without a Sail" "Dancing on the Ceiling" "Ten Cents a Dance" "He Was Too Good to Me" "I've Got Five Dollars" "Isn't It Romantic?" "Lover" "Mimi" "Blue Moon" "It's Easy to Remember (And So Hard to Forget)" "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" "My Romance" "Little Girl Blue" "There's a Small Hotel" "Glad to Be Unhappy" "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" "Where or When" "I Wish I Were in Love Again" "My Funny Valentine" "Johnny One Note" "The Lady Is a Tramp" "Have You Met Miss Jones?" "I'll Tell the Man in the Street" "Spring Is Here" "Falling in Love with Love" "This Can't Be Love" "Sing for Your Supper" "I Like to Recognize the Tune" "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" "Give It Back to the Indians" "You're Nearer" "It Never Entered My Mind" "I Could Write a Book" "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" "Ev'rything I've Got" "Wait till You See Her"

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