Convertido en un stándar del jazz este tema lo compusieron Richard Rogers y Oscar Hammerstein II para la comedia musical de Broadway "The Sound of Music" en el 1959, posteriormente interpretada por Julie Andrews en la película homónima estrenada en 1965.

In 2015 it was announced that the Gerry Mulligan quartet featuring Chet Baker's version of the song will be inducted into the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry for the song's cultural, artistic and/or historical significance to American society and the nation’s audio legacy.