"There's a Small Hotel": Song history, Commentary, Discography, Performances on Video

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There's A Small Hotel
Written: 1935	Music by: Richard Rodgers	Words by: Lorenz Hart	Written for the Rodgers and Hart 1935 show Jumbo but cut and then premiered in On Your Toes (Broadway show, 1936)
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Diana Ross

performing

"There's a Small Hotel"

from the Concert
December 4, 1992, Ritz Theatre, New York,
Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of
Ross's Performance as Billie Holiday
in the Movie Lady Sings the Blues, 1972.

Arranged and conducted by Gil Askey with Roy Hargrove, trumpet; Ralph Moore, tenor sax; Urbie Greene, trombone;
Ron Carter, bass; and others.

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About the Show On Your Toes / Origins of the Song

Other songs written for On Your Toes currently included in the Cafe Songbook Catalog of The Great American Songbook:

1. Glad To Be Unhappy

For a complete listing of songs* used in the original Broadway production of On Your Toes, see IBDB song list.

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Diana Ross: somnoar

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"There's a Small Hotel"

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