Vincent Youmans
Vincent Millie Youmans (September 27, 1898 – April 5, 1946) was an American Broadway composer and producer. A leading Broadway composer of his day, Youmans collaborated with virtually all the greatest lyricists on Broadway: Ira Gershwin, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Irving Caesar, Anne Caldwell, Leo Robin, Howard Dietz, Clifford Grey, Billy Rose, Edward Eliscu, Edward Heyman, Harold Adamson, Buddy DeSylva and Gus Kahn. Youmans' early songs are remarkable for their economy of melodic material: two-, three- or four-note phrases are constantly repeated and varied by subtle harmonic or rhythmic changes. In later years, however, he turned to longer musical sentences and more rhapsodic melodic lines. Youmans published fewer than 100 songs, but 18 of these were considered standards by ASCAP, a remarkably high percentage.
Genre: tin-pan-alley
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Top Tracks
- Tea For Two - From The Musical "No, No, Nanette"
- Battements tendus jetés I (V. Youmans "Tea for Two")
- Orchids in the Moonlight
- Tea for Two
- Tea for Two
- More Than You Know (from the musical 'Great Day')
- Tahiti Trot
- Oh Me! Oh My!
- Carioca
- Orchids in the Moonlight
- Carioca
- No, No, Nanette: "Nein, nein Nanette, das schickt sich nicht"
- Hallelujah (From "Hit the Deck!")
- I Know That You Know (From "Hit the Deck!")
- Tahiti Trot (Arr. Dmitri Shostakovich)
- Tea for Two
- No, No, Nanette: Tea for two
- Hit the Deck (Selection)
- Tahiti Trot
- No, No, Nanette - Original Broadway Cast: Tea for Two
Albums (42)
- Classics Go Jazz (2026)
- The Menuhin Century - The Historic Recordings (2026)
- Shostakovich: The Complete Symphonies, Piano Concertos & Cello Concertos (2024)
- Unspoken (Original Soundtrack) (2024)
- Gershwin Rhapsody (2024)
- 50 x 12: Half a Century of Music (2022)
- Django l'impressionniste (2019)
- Sarah`s Ballet Class Music Vol.1 (2019)
- Vintage Japanese Music, The Modern Enka, Vol.2 (1951-1953) (2017)
- All That Jazz, Vol. 85: Plain Saxophone – Paul Desmond & Friends, Feat. Dave Brubeck (Remastered 2017) (2017)
- Mario Lanza - The Best of Everything (2017)
- The Sound of The King's Singers (2017)
- The Musicality of Youmans (2015)
- Youmans: No, No, Nanette (2014)
- Orient Express - 20 Light Classics (2014)
- Pure... Musicals (2013)
- 100 Best Songs from the Musicals (2012)
- The Golden Age of Light Music: Light and Easy (2011)
- The Complete Verve Sessions (2011)
- Hits & Evergreens (Classical Choice) (2011)
- Icon: Menuhin and Grappelli (2009)
- Hey Eugene! (2007)
- Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 etc (2007)
- Broadway: The American Musical (2004)
- Ballets Russes (2004)
- A Foreign Sound (2004)
- Kenton, Stan: Macgregor Transcriptions, Vol. 4 (1944) (2003)
- My Ballerina Album (2002)
- Through the Years (World Premiere Cast Recording) (2001)
- Lawrence Tibbett, Vol. 2 (2000)
- If Your Are But A Dream (2000)
- The Golden Age of Operetta, Vol. 1 (2000)
- Das Jahrtausendfest (1999)
- Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 "The Year 1905", Jazz Suites & Tahiti Trot (1970)
- Shostakovich: The Jazz Album (1992)
- The Dazzling Poet Of The Piano (1992)
- Yehudi Menuhin (1970)
- South of the Border: The Latin-American Songbook (1990)
- ¡Fiesta! (1990)
- Complete Gramercy 5 Sessions (1989)
- Salute To Hollywood (1989)
- Menuhin & Grappelli Play Jealousy & Other Great Standards (1988)
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