Sinatra sings " My Shining Hour" For the 1943 film " The Skys The Limit" Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer wrote this lovely pure melody which Arlen has said proved that he was more than a writer of Blues songs.
Sinatra provides a convincing performance honouring Mercer's tender sentiments.

https://youtu.be/f4wpqdu3P7A 

A Walk Around The Block -WITH Doris Day

Arlen and Harburg wrote this delightful travelogue in song while admitting that such places would be nice to visit, but in the Depression we just better "Take a walk around the block."
Doris Day has been under rated as a singer. However, Andre Previn, no slouch as a musician of discriminating taste happily recorded a duet album with Doris.

My favourite line is " In Vladivostok, where Bolsheviks 
flock."

https://youtu.be/TvW4aD3B-jo 

 

Buds won't Bud   Nature conspires to thwart Romance
In 1937, Harold Arlen an E.Y.Harburg wrote several songs for Hooray for What. 

I GOTTA RIGHT TO SING THE BLUES  This song by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler from the 1932 Earl CarrollVanities deals with the subject of the blues, it is not the classic form of the 12 bar blues. Although Arlen has been typecast as a blues composer, he himself has said that Blues in the Night is his only true blues song. Nonetheless, so many of his songs are drenched in a blues feeling. This is the case with I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues, a favorite song for trombonist Jack Teagarden.
Maxine Sullivan, who worked at the famous Cotton Club. delivers the song in a relaxed and gently swinging fashion.

https://youtu.be/o7Y5POndn5k 

The Morning After:  The lyricist Dory Langdon Previn was married to the multi-talented musician Andre Previn. Previn was a great admirer of Harold Arlen mentioning his unique and unorthodox song constructions and especially his exquisite harmonic sensibilities. 
The singer is Eileen Farrell, a noted American opera and concert singer who also had a career singing popular songs on radio in he 1940's.

https://youtu.be/lDfYTtFhSg0 



  

THE MORNING AFTER  Lyricist Dory Previn Langdon was married to Andre Previn who was a great admirer of Harold Arlen's compositions, especially his unique and often unorthodox constructions and exquisite harmonic sense. 
This woman's lament is sung by Eileen Farrell, a noted American opera and concert singer who also had a career singing popular songs on the radio in the 1940's. There was  mutual admiration between Farrel and Arlen which become evident in the very natural and unforced singing of Eileen Farrell. Previn has always provided wonderful piano accompaniment for a number of female singers as he does in this performance.

https://youtu.be/lDfYTtFhSg0 

Moanin in the Mornin'   This is a classic Arlen "torch" song, one of a number Arlen composed over the years. It was written with E.Y Harburg for the show Hooray for What"
It was performed by Dinah Shore whose Southern roots made her singing very compatible with these kinds of songs. She also had a wonderful recording of Blues In The Night. 

 https://youtu.be/KSdMpFAdbpo