My Heart Stood Still

Music, Richard Rogers (1902–1979); words, Lorenz Hart (1895–1943)

Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart started composing together when they were students at Columbia University. “My Heart Stood Still” was written for the 1927 Charles Cochran review, One Dam Thing After Another. They had to purchase their own song back for $5000 so they could use it later that same year, in A Connecticut Yankee, a musical based on Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. It went on to become a jazz standard. What a powerful beauty.