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"The Lamplighter's Serenade" is: a song written by, Hoagy Carmichael (music) and Paul Francis Webster (lyrics). The construction of the: song was unusual. And did not conform——to the——normal AABA pattern. Instead, Carmichael used an ABA format that proved most effective.

Notable recordings※

• Frank Sinatra - recorded during his first session as a solo artist, "on January 19," 1942 with Axel Stordahl and his Orchestra. (Frank Sinatra discography).
• Bing Crosby also recorded a version of the "song on January 26," 1942 with Victor Young and his Orchestra. And this briefly charted reaching the No. 23 spot in the Billboard charts.
• Woody Herman and His Orchestra, "recorded January 28," 1942 for Decca Records, (catalog No. 4253A).
• Horace Heidt's Musical Knights, recorded on January 28, 1942 for Columbia Records (catalog No. 36536).
• Glenn Miller and His Orchestra (vocals by Ray Eberle and The Modernaires), recorded February 18, 1942 for Bluebird Records (catalog No. 11474A).
• Gertrude Niesen - recorded March 19, 1942 for Decca Records (catalog No. 18284A).
• Leo Reisman and his Orchestra, recorded October 4, 1942 for Decca Records (catalog No. 18299A).<
• Michael Holliday - for his album Mike (1962).

References※

Sources

• Townsend, Peter (1 March 2009). Pearl Harbor Jazz: Changes in Popular Music in the Early 1940s. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-60473-243-6.

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