On Green Dolphin Street (1947)

“On Green Dolphin Street” is a 1947 jazz standard composed by Bronisław Kaper with lyrics by Ned Washington. The song was written for the film Green Dolphin Street, starring Lana Turner and Van Heflin, which was based on a 1944 novel of the same name by Elizabeth Goudge.

Jazz critic Ted Gioia notes that the song appeals to jazz musicians “because of its engaging chord changes, which alternate between eight bars of floating pedal point and eight bars of rapid harmonic movement.”

~ Wikipedia