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George Gershwin albums featuring Doris Day
George Gershwin Music Videos (24)
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| | Essential George Gershwin CDs (2003) Limited Edition
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This two-disc set features a wide variety of interpretations of one of the 20th century's best-known composers, George Gershwin, from Whispering Jack Smith's genteel rendering of "Funny Face" to a youthful Ella Fitzgerald performing "I Was Doing All Right," with ...
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 George Gershwin Lyrics and Songs
Popular or famous George Gershwin songs: Rhapsody in Blue, Summertime, Man I Love, It Ain't Necessarily So, Someone to Watch Over Me. More music songs My Man's Gone Now, American in Paris, Embraceable You, Liza, Fascinating Rhythm, Nice Work If You Can Get It. More music songs They Can't Take That Away From Me, Let's Call the Whole Thing Off, Introduction, Bess, You Is My Woman Now, I Loves You, Porgy. More music songs There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York, I Got Rhythm Lyrics, Somebody Loves Me Lyrics, Our Love Is Here to Stay Lyrics.
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George Gershwin Biography
Widely regarded as one of the finest songwriters and composers of the 20th century, George Gershwin began his career playing piano in vaudeville, recording piano rolls, and working in Tin Pan Alley, where he wrote his first hit, "Swanee," in 1919. Collaborating with his brother, Ira (who wrote lyrics for much of his music), he created the Broadway musical LADY BE GOOD in 1924, which yielded the soon-to-be standards "Fascinating Rhythm" and the title song. That same year saw the release of Gershwin's first major orchestral work, RHAPSODY IN BLUE, in concerto form--designed to present jazz as "serious" music akin to classical. Between 1925 and 1933, he wrote at least 12 new works for Broadway, including FUNNY FACE and GIRL CRAZY (which included the classic "I Got Rhythm"). His 1935 opera, PORGY AND BESS, successfully fused elements of classical, show tunes, and African American forms, and proved to be one of the composer's greatest achievements. Gershwin wrote numerous other orchestral pieces, works for solo piano, and compositions for stage and film, but his career was cut suddenly short when he died of a brain tumor in 1937.
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Contemporaries
Duke Ellington, Bing Crosby, Johnny Mercer, Fred Astaire, Hoagy Carmichael, Cole Porter, Paul Whiteman, Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen, Rodgers & Hart, Richard Rodgers
Followers
Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Carole King, Laura Nyro, Randy Newman, Lee Feldman, Stephen Sondheim, Frank Loesser
Influences
Scott Joplin, Stephen Foster, Igor Stravinsky
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