My Funny Valentine
Beloved despite flaws
A jazz standard from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical *Babes in Arms*, now among the most recorded songs in the American songbook.
The title phrase addresses a beloved whose flaws—physical or otherwise—only deepen affection.
Musicians often use it as shorthand for a certain kind of torch-song sophistication: We closed the set with My Funny Valentine.
- jazzImprovisational American music genre
- balladNarrative poem or song
- jazz standardEssential repertoire piece
- Great American SongbookCanon of classic American songs
- romanticConducive to love
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