Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1502702

Composed by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer. Arranged by Dave Gingras and John E. Dosher. Film/TV,Jazz. Score. 2 pages. DAVID LEE GINGRAS #1078374. Published by DAVID LEE GINGRAS (A0.1502702).

My Shining Hour is a song composed by Harold Arlen with lyrics by Johnny Mercer for the film The Sky's the Limit (1943). In the film, the song is sung by Fred Astaire and Sally Sweetland, who dubbed it for actress Joan Leslie. The orchestra was led by Freddie Slack. My Shining Hour was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song but lost to You'll Never Know. The film was released on July 13, 1943. The song became a hit the following year by Glen Gray's Casa Loma Orchestra with Eugenie Baird as vocalist, reaching No. 4 on the Billboard Best Selling Retail Records chart. The song's title may have been a reference to Winston Churchill's speech to British citizens during World War II: if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, this was their finest hour. This version was developed from a lead sheet and was created so that someone with average ability can play it and sound good doing so. We added root-based chord blocking and a some left-hand fills for rhythm - we hope you like what we've done with this grand old tune!