Embraceable You
| "Embraceable You" | |
|---|---|
| Song | |
| Language | English |
| Written | 1928 |
| Published | 1930 |
| Composer(s) | George Gershwin |
| Lyricist(s) | Ira Gershwin |
"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 The song was originally written in 1928 for an unpublished operetta named East is West.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.[1]
Notable Recordings
- Art Tatum
- Frank Sinatra (1941)
- 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)[2]
- 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 - At The Montreaux Jazz Festival (1968)
- 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
See also
Footnotes
- ^ Grammy Hall of Fame
- ^ Dir. Norman Taurog, Busby Berkeley (1943). Video: "Judy Garland - Embraceable You on Lost Vocals". Girl Crazy. MGM. Retrieved 2009-01-31.
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