Some Sunday Morning

"Some Sunday Morning" is the title of two well-known American songs. The first has music written by Richard A. Whiting with lyrics by Gus Kahn and Raymond B. Egan,^[2] and was recorded by Ada Jones and Billy Murray in 1917.^[3] The second has music by M.K. Jerome and Ray Heindorf, with lyrics by Ted Koehler,^[4] and was introduced in the 1945 film San Antonio by Alexis Smith.^[5]

"Some Sunday Morning"
Sheet music cover, 1917
Song
Written	Richard Armstrong Whiting
Published	1917[1]

The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1945 but lost out to “It Might as Well Be Spring”. It was also recorded that year by Helen Forrest and Dick Haymes,^[6] peaking at No. 9 on the Billboard chart.^[7]

Legacy

The Jerome-Heindorf-Koehler tune was sung by Sylvester the Cat in the 1948 Merrie Melodies cartoon Back Alley Oproar, by Clint Walker and Joan Weldon in the 1957 Cheyenne episode "The Conspirators", and by Peggy King in the 1959 Maverick episode "The Strange Journey of Jenny Hill".

References

1. William Emmett Studwell; Mark Baldin (2000). The Big Band Reader: Songs Favored by Swing Era Orchestras and Other Popular Ensembles. Psychology Press. pp. 177–. ISBN 978-0-7890-0914-2.
2. Gene Lees (19 August 2009). Portrait of Johnny: The Life of John Herndon Mercer. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. p. 182. ISBN 978-0-307-48969-2.
3. The New Amberola Graphic. New Amberola Phonograph Company. 1997.
4. Michael G. Cunningham (August 2010). Gilded Songs (Berlin to Bacharach): The Gig Instrumentalist's Guide to the Golden Era of American Popular Song (1920 to 1979). AuthorHouse. pp. 70–. ISBN 978-1-4520-4527-6.
5. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (23 March 1946). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 112–. ISSN 0006-2510. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
6. Charles Garrod; Denis Brown (1990). Dick Haymes. Joyce Record Club.
7. Whitburn, Joel (1986). Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954. Wisconsin, USA: Record Research Inc. p. 163. ISBN 0-89820-083-0.