Which jazz standard was featured in a musical based on a James A. Michener book?
Younger Than Springtime "Younger Than Springtime" is a show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "South Pacific". It has been widely recorded as a jazz standard.
List of 1930s jazz standards Jazz standards are musical compositions that are widely known, performed and recorded by jazz artists as part of the genre's musical repertoire. This list includes compositions written in the 1930s that are considered standards by at least one major fake book publication or reference work. Some of the tunes listed were already well known standards by the 1940s, while others were popularized later. Where appropriate, the years when the most influential recordings of a song were made are indicated in the list.