My Favorite Things

song by Rodgers and Hammerstein

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"My Favorite Things" is a song from the musical The Sound of Music, created by the renowned songwriting duo Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. The song is featured in the beloved 1965 film adaptation of the musical, which became one of the highest-grossing films in history.123

In the story, the song is introduced by Maria, the governess, as a way to comfort the von Trapp children during a thunderstorm. It is part of the larger collection of songs that define The Sound of Music, a musical that has become an enduring classic. The song itself is also recognized as a standard within The Great American Songbook, a canon of influential American popular songs.14

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…of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “My Favorite Things” and Thelonious Monk’s adaptation of Irving Caesar and Vincent Youmans’s “Tea for Two.”
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…of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “My Favorite Things” and Thelonious Monk’s adaptation of Irving Caesar and Vincent Youmans’s “Tea for Two.”
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