My Favorite Things (song) My Favorite Things (song) "My Favorite Things" is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music." In the original Broadway production, this song was introduced by Mary Martin playing Maria and Patricia Neway playing Mother Abbess. Julie Andrews, who played Maria in the 1965 film version of the musical, had previously sung the song on the Christmas special for "The Garry Moore Show". In the musical, the lyrics to the song are a reference to things Maria loves, such as "whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens". These are the things
Best of My Love (The Emotions song) it also won an American Music Award for Favourite Soul/R&B Single. The song was ranked at number 87 on "The Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs". It was also the third biggest pop song of 1977 and the fifth biggest R&B song of 1977. "Best of My Love" has been certified platinum in the US by the RIAA and silver in the UK by the BPI. Recent reviews have been largely positive, and the song continues to appear on "Best of the '70s" lists. In 2015, "Billboard" ranked the song at number one on their list of the Top 40