My Shining Hour

"My Shining Hour" is a song composed by Harold Arlen, with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was written for the 1943 film The Sky's the Limit, where it was introduced by Sally Sweetland - who dubbed for Joan Leslie - backed by Freddie Slack and his orchestra. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song. The song became a hit, in a version recorded by Glen Gray with Eugenie Baird as vocalist, but only slowly, taking four months to achieve recognition on Your Hit Parade having entered the charts on January 22, 1944 (the film was premiered on September 2, 1943). The song's title, and opening line: "This will be my shining hour", is believed to have been a reference to Winston Churchill's famous rallying call to British citizens during the war: " … if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, this was their finest hour."

Notable recordings

My Shining Hour (album)

My Shining Hour (released 2001 in Oslo, Norway by label Blue Jersey Records – BJCD 02) is a Jazz album by the Norwegian jazz singer Kjersti Stubø Band.

Review

With this stylistic debut album as a solo artist, Stubø has chosen to go heer own ways and seek to her musical roots, jazz standard material. She obviously has a close relationship with these songs, and abilities to provide them their own personal mark. The result is an album that will give us much pleasure in the decades to come.

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