My Shining Hour (The Sky’s the Limit)

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lyricist:	Johnny Mercer (in 1943)
composer:	Harold Arlen (in 1943)

publisher:	MPL Communications Inc. (Paul McCartney‐related, NYC‐based company) (ended) Edwin H. Morris & Co., Inc. (a division of MPL Communications Inc.) Harwin Music Corporation

part of:	The 16th Academy Award for Best Original Song (number: 2) (order: 4)

SecondHandSongs:	https://secondhandsongs.com/work/20036 [info]
Wikidata:	Q6946371 [info]

part of:	The Sky’s the Limit (1943 film)
arrangements:	This Will Be My Shining Hour (arr. Ernie Krivda)

Recordings

Date	Title	Attributes	Artist	Length
	recordings
1943-10-01	My Shining Hour		Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra with Eugenie Baird	2:58
1944-01-12	My Shining Hour (mx. VP 498)		Frank Sinatra	2:25
1954-12	My Shining Hour	instrumental	Paul Smith	3:24
1957-06	My Shining Hour	cover	Joy Bryan	1:50
1957-10-04	My Shining Hour	instrumental	John T. Williams Octet	2:05
1959-02-03 – 1959-02-10	My Shining Hour		Shorty Rogers and His Orchestra feat. The Giants	3:39
1959-12-02	My Shining Hour (stereo)	cover and instrumental	John Coltrane	4:53
1959-12-02	My Shining Hour (mono)	cover and instrumental	John Coltrane	4:53
1960	My Shining Hour	cover	Ella Fitzgerald	4:03
1961-11	My Shining Hour	cover, instrumental and live	Gato Barbieri	7:32
1963-07-07	My Shining Hour	cover and live	Dakota Staton	?:??
1963-07-07	My Shining Hour (mono)	cover, live and partial	Dakota Staton	?:??
1963-07-07	My Shining Hour	cover, live and partial	Dakota Staton	?:??
1963-07-07	My Shining Hour (mono)	cover and live	Dakota Staton	?:??
1964	My Shining Hour (live, 1964: Frank Sinatra Spectacular)	cover and live	Sammy Davis Jr.	1:44
1965	My Shining Hour (live, 1965: St. Louis, Missouri)	cover and live	Sammy Davis Jr.	1:47
1974-02-12	My Shining Hour	instrumental	Kenny Drew & Niels‐Henning Ørsted Pedersen	5:35
1976-12-06	My Shining Hour	instrumental	Barry Harris Trio With Al Cohn	8:33
1977-07	My Shining Hour	cover	Roland Hanna, George Mraz	4:40
1978-09 – 1988-08-02	My Shining Hour		Marlene VerPlanck	2:12
1978	My Shining Hour	instrumental	Tommy Flanagan	5:16
1979-09-17	My Shining Hour		Frank Sinatra	3:27
1979-09-17	My Shining Hour (1979 original studio master)	cover	Frank Sinatra	3:24
1980-03-11	My Shining Hour	instrumental	Pepper Adams	7:28
1981-02-27	My Shining Hour	cover	Jimmy Raney	4:55
1981-02-27	My Shining Hour (alternate take)	cover	Jimmy Raney	5:03
1983-09	My Shining Hour	cover, instrumental and live	Thorgeir Stubø	9:47
1986-04-17	My Shining Hour	instrumental and live	Al Cohn	8:14
1986-10	My Shining Hour		Carmen Lundy	4:20
1988-08-08	My Shining Hour	cover	Jon Nagourney Quartet	5:45
1989-02-26	My Shining Hour	cover	Meredith d’Ambrosio	2:42
1989-09	My Shining Hour / We'll Be Together Again	medley	Sheila Jordan	6:51
1989-10-20	My Shining Hour	instrumental	Larry Coryell	5:06
1990-05-20	My Shining Hour	instrumental	Kenny Drew Trio	9:04
1990-10	My Shining Hour	instrumental	Dave Stryker Quintet	6:16
1991-01-29	My Shining Hour	instrumental	Ruby Braff	5:45
1991-10	My Shining Hour	instrumental	Spike Robinson & George Masso	5:39
1993-03	My Shining Hour	instrumental	Chris Flory	3:57
1993-09	My Shining Hour	instrumental	Frank Wess	5:18
1993-12-11 – 1993-12-15	My Shining Hour	cover	Silvia Droste & New Wings	6:51
1994-06-25	My Shining Hour	instrumental and live	Warren Vaché	7:21
1994-09-04	Ma Sining Hour	cover	Eddie Harris, Wendell Harrison	?:??
1995-08-08	My Shining Hour	instrumental	John Hicks	9:00
1995-11-05	My Shinning Hour	cover	Joey Calderazzo, Lars Danielsson, Jacek Kochan	?:??
1996-03-04	My Shining Hour	instrumental	Jay Leonhart, Ken Peplowski, Ted Rosenthal, Grady Tate	8:47
1996-12-26	My Shining Hour	instrumental	Orrin Evans Ortet	5:43
1996-12	My Shining Hour	cover	Joe Ascione Trio	5:02
1997-01	My Shining Hour	instrumental	Eric Alexander	6:29
1997	My Shining Hour		Wesla Whitfield	2:37
1998-12-26	My Shining Hour	instrumental	Bill Charlap Trio	6:10
1999-05	My Shining Hour		Warren Vaché	3:51
1999-09	My Shining Hour	cover	Jazz Big Band Graz Directed By Sigi Feigl	?:??
2000-10	My Shining Hour	cover and instrumental	Einar Iversen	4:29
2001-01-21	My Shining Hour	instrumental	Tim Warfield	10:24
2002-05	My Shining Hour	instrumental	Roy Haynes	5:47
2002-06-01	My Shining Hour	instrumental	Pete Malinverni	6:33
2003-04-06	My Shining Hour	instrumental	Harold Mabern	4:34
2003-09	My Shining Hour	instrumental and live	Bill Charlap Trio	7:30
2005-01	My Shining Hour		Karin Krog & Bergen Big Band	4:11
2006-01-31	My Shining Hour	cover	Christian McBride, Javon Jackson, Jimmy Cobb & Cedar Walton	5:27
2006	My Shining Hour (live, 2006)	live	Barbra Streisand	4:31
2008-05	My Shining Hour	cover, instrumental and live	Gaël Horellou Trio	9:33
2009-02	My Shining Hour	cover and instrumental	Ewan Svensson Trio	3:56
2014-01-21 – 2014-01-23	My Shining Hour		Marshall Gilkes, WDR Big Band	6:55
2015-08-07	My Shining Hour	cover	Steve Kuhn Trio	6:33
2017-05-21 – 2017-05-23	My Shining Hour		One O’Clock Lab Band	5:34
2017-09-20	My Shining Hour	instrumental	Will Vinson	7:21
2019-08	My Shining Hour	cover	Dave Stahl Band	2:53
2020-01 – 2020-05	My Shining Hour	cover and instrumental	Frank Wingold	5:22
2022-12	My Shining Hour	cover	Keiichi Motogami	?:??
	Get Happy / Shining Hour	cover and medley	Liza Pulman with Gareth Williams	3:00
	My Shining Hour		Frank Sinatra	2:32
	My Shining Hour		Rebecka Törnqvist & Per “Texas” Johansson	2:12
	My Shining Hour		Harold Arlen	3:27
	My Shining Hour		Sara Gazarek	3:13
	My Shining Hour		Tom Wopat	6:06
	My Shining Hour		Rosemary Clooney	3:51
	My Shining Hour		JaLaLa	4:24
	My Shining Hour		Sylvia Syms	4:50
	My Shining Hour		Liza Minnelli	3:23
	My Shining Hour (live)	live	Frank Sinatra	3:22
	My Shining Hour		Carol Dumond & Tom Shaw	2:12
	My Shining Hour	instrumental	Stefan Karlsson	6:43
	My Shining Hour	instrumental	The Brass Connection	6:19
	My Shining Hour		Harold Arlen	3:23
	My Shining Hour (stereo)	cover	Nancy Wilson	1:57
	My Shining Hour	cover	Chris Connor	3:17
	My Shining Hour	cover	Chris Connor	3:32
	My Shining Hour		June Christy	3:23
	My Shining Hour		June Christy	1:49
	My Shining Hour		Marian McPartland	2:13
	My Shining Hour	instrumental	Rob Bargad	4:55
	My Shining Hour		Craig Eckhardt	2:44
	My Shining Hour	cover and live	Vanessa Rubin	3:38
	My Shining Hour		Stephanie Nakasian	2:11
	My Shining Hour		Betty Carter	2:39
	My Shining Hour	instrumental	Joe Pass	?:??
	My Shining Hour		Denise Donatelli	3:17
	My Shining Hour		Jon Nagourney	5:44
	My Shining Hour	cover	Diana Krall	4:31
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