You Are Too Beautiful
# You Are Too Beautiful

You Are Too Beautiful is a 1932 song written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart for the 1933 film Hallelujah, I'm a Bum, where it was sung by Al Jolson. It became a pop and jazz standard in the 1940s, with a notable recording made on August 3, 1945 by Dick Haymes (Decca 23750).

## Other recordings

Other versions include those by:

* Frank Sinatra (1945)
* Cannonball Adderley on Julian Cannonball Adderley and Strings (1955)
* Thelonious Monk on The Unique Thelonious Monk (1956)
* Warne Marsh on Music for Prancing (1957)
* David Whitfield on Alone (1961)
* John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman on John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman (1963)
* Sarah Vaughan on Crazy and Mixed Up (1982)
