Some Sunday Morning

{{Short description|American songs}}

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| name = Some Sunday Morning

| cover = Some sunday morning.jpg

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| caption = Sheet music cover, 1917

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| written =Richard Armstrong Whiting

| published = 1917{{cite book|author1=William Emmett Studwell|author2=Mark Baldin|title=The Big Band Reader: Songs Favored by Swing Era Orchestras and Other Popular Ensembles|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iyJsVIs_L2sC&pg=PA177|year=2000|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-7890-0914-2|pages=177–}}

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"Some Sunday Morning" is the title of two well-known American songs. The first has music written by Richard A. Whiting with lyrics by Gus Kahn and Raymond B. Egan,{{cite book|author=Gene Lees|title=Portrait of Johnny: The Life of John Herndon Mercer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4tyAtA2QDkcC&pg=PT182|date=19 August 2009|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-307-48969-2|page=182}} and was recorded by Ada Jones and Billy Murray in 1917.{{cite book|title=The New Amberola Graphic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iJA4AQAAIAAJ|year=1997|publisher=New Amberola Phonograph Company}} The second has music by M.K. Jerome and Ray Heindorf, with lyrics by Ted Koehler,{{cite book|author=Michael G. Cunningham|title=Gilded Songs (Berlin to Bacharach): The Gig Instrumentalist's Guide to the Golden Era of American Popular Song (1920 to 1979)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SyxG0sOXSbsC&pg=PA70|date=August 2010|publisher=AuthorHouse|isbn=978-1-4520-4527-6|pages=70–}} and was introduced in the 1945 film San Antonio by Alexis Smith.{{cite book|title=Billboard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-RkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT112|date=23 March 1946|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|pages=112–|issn=0006-2510}}

The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1945 but lost out to “It Might as Well Be Spring”. It was also recorded that year by Helen Forrest and Dick Haymes,{{cite book|author1=Charles Garrod|author2=Denis Brown|title=Dick Haymes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AlFLAAAAYAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Joyce Record Club}} peaking at No. 9 on the Billboard chart.{{cite book|last1=Whitburn|first1=Joel|title=Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954|date=1986|publisher=Record Research Inc|location=Wisconsin, USA|isbn=0-89820-083-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/joelwpopmemories00whit/page/163 163]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/joelwpopmemories00whit/page/163}}