My Heart Stood Still

The show starred Jessie Matthews, Douglas Byng, Lance Lister, and Richard Dolman, running for 237 performances.

On their way back to Paris from a sightseeing expedition to Versailles, a truck nearly demolished the cab the two songwriters, along with their two female companions, were riding in.

My heart stood still!” Hart instantly urged Rodgers to make a note of her exclamation as a potential song title.

When Rodgers played it for Hart, the lyricist loved the tune but claimed no recollection of the precipitating incident, but he quickly produced the lyric for the song.

[2] Rodgers and Hart later had to buy back the rights from Cochran when they wanted the song for the musical A Connecticut Yankee (1927), where it was introduced by Constance Carpenter and William Gaxton.