Embraceable You

This article is about the Gershwin popular song. For other uses, see Embraceable You (disambiguation).

"Embraceable You"
Music by	George Gershwin
Lyrics by	Ira Gershwin
Published	1930
Written	1928
Language	English
Original artist	Ginger Rogers
Recorded by	Various artists

"Embraceable You" is a popular song, with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. The song was originally written in 1928 for an unpublished operetta named East is West. It was eventually published in 1930 and included in the Broadway musical Girl Crazy. where it was performed by Ginger Rogers in a song and dance routine choreographed by Fred Astaire. Billie Holiday's 1944 recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2005.

Notable Recordings

• Art Tatum
• Frank Sinatra (1941)
• Doris Day
• Chet Baker
• Nat King Cole
• Jimmy Dorsey - May 1941 (Decca 3928)
• Ella Fitzgerald, on the album Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook (1959) and Nice Work If You Can Get It, Pablo, 1983.
• Judy Garland - Girl Crazy, film (1943)
• Billie Holiday (1944) - 6:46
• Charlie Parker - Cool Bird (1947)
• Liberace
• Ornette Coleman - This Is Our Music (1959)
• Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown (1954)
• Andy Williams - Warm and Willing (1962)
• Bill Evans - Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival (1968)
• Maureen McGovern
• Chucho Valdés
• Louis Prima
• Rod Stewart
• Brent Spiner, on the album Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back
• Oleta Adams, on the album The Glory of Gershwin (1994)
• Liza Minnelli, on her 1996 album Gently
• Herbie Hancock, on his (1998) album Gershwin's World
• Idina Menzel
• Duncan Sheik, on Red Hot + Rhapsody
• Ben Webster and Harry "Sweets" Edison, on the EP album Ben and "Sweets"
• Nicole Henry

See also

• List of 1930s jazz standards