TOO MARVELOUS FOR WORDS
From the film "Ready, Willing And Able" (1937)
(Richard Whiting / Johnny Mercer)

Ross Alexander (Film Soundtrack) - 1937
Bing Crosby with Jimmy Dorsey & His Orch. - 1937
Leo Reisman & His Orch. - 1937
Eddy Duchin & His Orch. - 1937
Carroll Gibbons & Savoy Orpheans(vocal: George Melachrino) - 1937
Ambrose & His Orch. (vocal: Sam Browne) - 1937
Harry James & His Orch. - 1943
Red Norvo & The Overseas Spotlight Band - 1943
Nat King Cole Trio - 1947
Tex Beneke & The Glenn Miller Orch. - 1948
Doris Day - 1949
June Christy - 1949
Helen Forrest - 1949
Frank Sinatra - 1956
Ella Fitzgerald - 1956
Lita Roza - 1956
Johnnie Ray - 1958
Joni James - 1959
Rosemary Clooney - 1959
Frankie Laine - 1961
Johnny Mercer - 1971

Also recorded by: Pat Boone; Judy Garland;
Dick Haymes; Dave Brubeck; Eileen Farrell;
Billy Daniels; Ray Anthony; Billie Holiday;
Helen Merrill; Andy Russell; Jeri Southern;
Michael Feinstein; Jo Stafford; Stan Getz;
Coleman Hawkins; Gene Ammons; Helen Humes;
Marian McPartland; Abbe Lane; Dean Martin;
Joe Williams; Artie Shaw; Margaret Whiting;
Lester Young;............ and many others.


I search for phrases
To sing your praises
But there aren't any magic adjectives
To tell you all you are!

You're just too marvelous
Too marvelous for words
Like glorious, glamourous
And that old standby, amorous

It's all too wonderful
I'll never find the words
That say enough, tell enough
I mean, they just aren't swell enough

You're much too much
And just too very, very
To ever be in Webster's Dictionary

And so I'm borrowing
A love song from the birds
To tell you that you're marvelous
Too marvelous for words


(Contributed by Bill Huntley - December 2004)