With a Song in My Heart is a show tune by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart from the 1929 Broadway musical Spring Is Here. It was introduced on Broadway by John Hundley and Lillian Taiz, and the following year appeared in the Hollywood film version sung by Lawrence Gray with Bernice Claire and Frank Albertson. The 1929 recording by Leo Reisman was the song’s most popular version. Over the years it has been recorded by many artists, including Perry Como in 1948 with Henri René conducting, Ella Fitzgerald on the 1956 Verve Rodgers and Hart Songbook, The Supremes on their 1966 album I Hear a Symphony, Bing Crosby on his 1975 album At My Time of Life, and tenor Anthony Kearns who named his debut CD after the title. The tune also appears in films such as Words and Music (1948) and Young Man with a Horn (1950), and served as the title song for the 1952 Jane Froman biopic. In popular culture, a line from the song is sung by a penguin in Happy Feet, and it was used as the signature tune for BBC radio's Family Favourites.
