"Heart and Soul" is a popular song composed by Hoagy Carmichael, with lyrics by Frank Loesser, and written in 1938. It is an English-language song in 32-bar form. Larry Clinton and His Orchestra, with Bea Wain on the vocal refrain, were the first to record it, on 1 September 1938, and the record was released on Victor Records on 21 September 1938. It was the orchestra's highest-charting and most successful recording, and their performance was filmed for a Paramount Pictures short released in 1939. That year three versions reached the charts: Larry Clinton (No. 1), Eddy Duchin (No. 12) and Al Donahue (No. 16). Al Bowlly also recorded it with Geraldo. The Four Aces reached No. 11 in 1952, and the Cleftones' rhythm and blues rearrangement reached No. 18 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1961, the same year Jan and Dean covered it. The A-section is often simplified to a repeating I-vi-IV-V progression, taught to beginning piano students as a two-hand duet; this progression, called the "50s progression", was used in doo-wop hits. The song appears in American Graffiti (1973, with the Cleftones version), Big (1988) and Frasier (1998).
