- There’s a Small Hotel is a song from the Rodgers and Hart duo, composed in 1936 with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart.
- It was originally written for Billy Rose’s Jumbo but cut from the show, and it was introduced in the musical On Your Toes in 1936 by Ray Bolger and Doris Carson, with a London West End run opening in 1937 starring Jack Whiting and Vera Zorina.
- The tune has become a classic show tune and a 1930s jazz standard, often performed in the jazz idiom and later featured in film and recordings.
- The lyric was inspired by a visit Hart made to the Stockton Inn in New Jersey, where a wishing well outside the inn sparked the idea for the song; another claimed inspiration is the Montecito Inn in California.
- In film, Betty Garrett sang it in Words and Music (1948), and it was interpolated in the Pal Joey film (1957) with Frank Sinatra.
- Notable recordings include Hal Kemp and His Orchestra (1936), Ella Fitzgerald in the Rodgers & Hart Songbook (1956), and Frank Sinatra in Pal Joey (1957), among others.
