“All the Things You Are” was written for a 1939 Broadway show called Very Warm for May by Jerome Kern (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics.) Susequently it was in the movie “Broadway Rhythm” 1944. Miles Davis said that these lyrics were his favorite.
“You are the angel glow that lights a star.
The dearest things I know are what you are.”
CARLY SIMON
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