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Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments | |||
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Benny Goodman Orchestra | Hooray for Hollywood | Hollywood Hotel OST | 90th Academy Awards are tonight! | ||||
Frances Williams | Hollywood Party | That's Entertainment: The Ultimate Anthology of MGM Musicals | on today's show, every Oscar winning song from 1934-1965 | ||||
Don Swan & His Orchestra | Hooray for Hollywood | Mambo Fever | Capitol | ||||
Ginger Rogers | The Continental | Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers at RKO | Rhino | 1934 Best Song winner from THE GAY DIVORCEE, m. Con Conrad, l. Herb Magidson | |||
Dick Powell | Lullaby of Broadway | Charming Gents of Stage and Screen | ASV Living Era | 1935 GOLD DIGGERS OF 1935, m. Harry Warren, l. Al Dubin | |||
Fred Astaire | The Way You Look Tonight | Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers at RKO | Rhino | 1936 SWING TIME, m. Jerome Kern, l. Dorothy Fields | |||
Bing Crosby | Sweet Leilani | Bing! His Legendary Years | BMG | 1937 WAIKIKI WEDDING, m. & l. Harry Owens | |||
Oscar Peterson Trio | They Can't Take That Away from Me | Oscar Peterson Plays Pretty | nominated 1937 SHALL WE DANCE, m. George Gershwin l. Ira Gershwin | ||||
Bob Hope & Shirley Ross | Thanks for the Memory | Make Mine a Double | 1938 THE BIG BROADCAST OF 1938, m. Ralph Rainger l. Leo Robin | ||||
Judy Garland | Over the Rainbow | Academy Award Winning Music from MGM Classics | 1939 THE WIZARD OF OZ, m. Harold Arlen l. Yip Harburg | ||||
Cliff Edwards | When You Wish Upon a Star | Singin' In the Rain | ASV Living Era | 1940 PINOCCHIO, m. Leigh Harline l. Ned Washington | |||
Ann Sothern | The Last Time I Saw Paris | Academy Award Winning Music from MGM Classics | 1941 LADY BE GOOD, m. Jerome Kern l. Oscar Hammerstein | ||||
Alvino Rey | Blues in the Night | Ultra-Lounge: Space Capades | Capitol | nominated 1941 BLUES IN THE NIGHT, m. Harold Arlen l. Johnny Mercer | |||
William Gillespie | Blues In the Night | Blues in the Night OST | this song should have won in 1941, & Jerome Kern, the composer of the winning song, petitioned the Academy to get a rules change tht would have disqualified his own song. The award was changed to "Best Original Song" and from then on had to be written for the movie | ||||
Bing Crosby | White Christmas | Bing! His Legendary Years | BMG | 1942 HOLIDAY INN m. & l. Irving Berlin | |||
Alice Faye | You'll Never Know | Hello, Frisco, Hello OST | 1943 HELLO, FRISCO, HELLO, m. Harry Warren l. Mack Gordon | ||||
Bing Crosby | Swinging on a Star | Swinging on a Star | 1944 GOING MY WAY, m. James Van Heusen l. Johnny Burke | ||||
Jeanne Crain | It Might as Well Be Spring | State Fair OST | 1945 STATE FAIR, m. Richard Rodgers l. Oscar Hammerstein | ||||
Stan Getz | It Might as Well Be Spring | The Complete Roost Recordings | |||||
Judy Garland | On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe | The Complete Decca Masters | 1946 THE HARVEY GIRLS, m. Harry Warren, l. Johnny Mercer | ||||
Johnny Mercer and the Pied Pipers | Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah | And the Winner Is: Capitol Sings the Best Movie Songs | Capitol | 1947 SONG OF THE SOUTH, m. Allie Wrubal, l. Ray Gilbert, sung by James Baskett in the movie | |||
Bob Hope | Buttons and Bows | And the Winner Is: Capitol Sings the Best Movie Songs | Capitol | 1948 THE PALEFACE, m. & l. Jay Livingston & Ray Evans | |||
Esther Williams and Ricardo Montalban | Baby, It's Cold Outside | Neptune's Daughter OST | 1949 NEPTUNE'S DAUGHTER, m. & l. Frank Loesser | ||||
Nat King Cole | Mona Lisa | The Extraordinary Nat King Cole | 1950 CAPTAIN CAREY, USA, m. & l. Ray Evans & Jay Livingston | ||||
Bing Crosby & Jane Wyman | In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening | Great American Songwriters: Johnny Mercer | 1951 HERE COMES THE GROOM, m. Hoagy Carmichael l. Johnny Mercer | ||||
Charlie Byrd | A Kiss to Build a Dream On | For Louis | nominated 1951 THE STRIP, m. & l. Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby & Oscar Hammerstein | ||||
Tex Ritter | Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling (High Noon) | High Noon OST | 1952 HIGH NOON, m. Dimitri Tiomkin, l. Ned Washington | ||||
Doris Day o/ Paul Weston | Secret Love | Golden Girl | Columbia | 1953 CALAMITY JANE, m. Sammy Fain l. Paul Francis Webster | |||
Frank Sinatra | Three Coins in the Fountain | The Complete Capitol Singles Collection | Capitol | 1954 THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN, m. Jules Stye, l. Sammy Cahn | |||
The Four Aces | Love is a Many-Splendored Thing | The Four Aces: Greatest Hits | 1955 LOVE IS A MANY-SPLENDORED THING, m. Sammy Fain l. Paul Francis Webster | ||||
Doris Day | Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Que Sera) | Sentimental Journey: Pop Vocal Classics Vol. 4 | Columbia | 1956 THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, m. & l. Jay Livingston & Ray Evans | |||
Frank Sinatra | All the Way | The Capitol Years | Capitol | 1957 THE JOKER IS WILD, m. James Van Heusen l. Sammy Cahn | |||
Dimitri Tiompkins | Wild is the Wind | Wild is the Wind | nominated 1957 WILD IS THE WIND, m. Dimitri Tiompkins l. Ned Washington | ||||
Louis Jourdan o/ MGM Studio Orchestra | Gigi | Academy Award Winning Music from MGM Classics | 1958 GIGI, m. Frederick Loewe, l. Alan Jay Lerner | ||||
Frank Sinatra | High Hopes | The Complete Capitol Singles Collection | Capitol | 1959 A HOLE IN THE HEAD, m. James Van Heusen l. Sammy Cahn | |||
Melina Mercouri | Never on Sunday | Never on Sunday OST | 1960 NEVER ON SUNDAY, m. & l. Manos Hadjidakis | ||||
Audrey Hepburn | Moon River | Music from the Films of Audrey Hepburn | 1961 BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S, m. Henry Mancini l. Johnny Mercer | ||||
Billy Eckstine | Days of Wine and Roses | Now Singing in 12 Great Movies | 1962 DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES m. Henry Mancini l. Johnny Mercer | ||||
Frank Sinatra | Call Me Irresponsible | Nothing But the Best | 1963 PAPA'S DELICATE CONDITION, m. James Van Heusen l. Sammy Cahn | ||||
Dick Van Dyke | Chim Chim Cher-ee | Mary Poppins OST | 1964 MARY POPPINS, m. & l. Richard Sherman and Robert Sherman | ||||
Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass | I Will Wait for You | SRO | nominated 1965 THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG, m. Michel Legrand, l. Jacques Demy, English l. Norman Gimbel | ||||
Shirley Bassey | The Shadow of your Smile | Let Me Sing and I'm Happy | 1965 THE SANDPIPER, m. Johnny Mandel l. Paul Francis Webster |