Embraceable You

"Embraceable You"
"Embraceable You"
Song
Written	1928

"Embraceable You" is a popular jazz 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 The song was originally written in 1928 for an unpublished operetta named East Is West.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

Oleta Adams, on the album The Glory of Gershwin (1994)
Paul Anka
Chet Baker, on the eponymous album (1957)
Clifford Brown - Clifford Brown with Strings (1955)
Nat King Cole
Ornette Coleman - This Is Our Music (1959)
Bing Crosby
Johnny Dankworth - Too Cool For The Blues (2010)
Doris Day
Jimmy Dorsey - May 1941 (Decca 3928)
Eliane Elias on her albums Eliane Elias Plays Live (2010) and I Thought About You (2013)
Gloria Estefan on the album The Standards (2013)
Bill Evans - Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival (1968)
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.
Med Flory and Supersax - Live in '75: Japanese Tour (1999), The Best Of Supersax And The LA Voices (2005)
Jane Froman sings in her 1952 #1 Best-selling soundtrack album from the film With a Song in My Heart^[2]
Judy Garland - Girl Crazy, film (1943)^[3]
Herbie Hancock, on his (1998) album Gershwin's World
Nicole Henry
Erroll Garner
Billie Holiday (1944)
Etta James on her 1994 cover album Mystery Lady: Songs of Billie Holiday
Harry James - Soft Lights, Sweet Trumpet (Columbia CL 6207, 1952)
Joni James on the album When I fall in love
Jose James & Jef Neve - For All We Know [2010]
Eyran Katsenelenbogen (2007)
Stacey Kent - Tenderly (2015)
Felix Knight - "Gems From Gershwin" radio broadcast (1938) ^[4]
Cleo Laine on her 1986 album That Old Feeling
Joe Lovano included it in his 2000 album 52nd Street Themes
Liberace
Wynton Marsalis, live performance at the Newport Jazz Festival (1989)
Maureen McGovern
Idina Menzel
Tim Minchin sings modified lyrics^[5]
Liza Minnelli, on her 1996 album Gently
Charlie Parker - Cool Bird (1947)
Louis Prima
Dianne Reeves on the album The Calling: Celebrating Sarah Vaughan (2001)
Duncan Sheik, on Red Hot + Rhapsody
Frank Sinatra (1941)
Carol Sloane. on the album But Not For Me (1986)
Brent Spiner, on the album Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back
Jo Stafford
Rod Stewart on the album Stardust: The Great American Songbook, Volume III (2004)
Art Tatum
Chucho Valdés
Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown (1954)
Dinah Washington (1946)
Ben Webster and Harry "Sweets" Edison, on the EP album Ben and "Sweets"
Andy Williams - Warm and Willing (1962)

References

^ "GRAMMY Hall Of Fame". GRAMMY.org. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
^ William Ruhlmann (2003-08-12). "With a Song in My Heart (from the film); Pal Joey (with 1952 cast members) - Jane Froman | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
^ Dir. Norman Taurog, Busby Berkeley (1943). "Judy Garland - Embraceable You on Lost Vocals". Girl Crazy. MGM. Archived from the original on February 2, 2009. Retrieved 2009-01-31. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHtmi7wrW4Y
^ "Inflatable You by Tim Minchin". YouTube. 2006-10-26. Retrieved 2016-04-10.

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[1] "GRAMMY Hall Of Fame". GRAMMY.org. Retrieved 2016-04-10.

[2] William Ruhlmann (2003-08-12). "With a Song in My Heart (from the film); Pal Joey (with 1952 cast members) - Jane Froman | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 2016-04-10.

[3] Dir. Norman Taurog, Busby Berkeley (1943). "Judy Garland - Embraceable You on Lost Vocals". Girl Crazy. MGM. Archived from the original on February 2, 2009. Retrieved 2009-01-31. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[4] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHtmi7wrW4Y

[5] "Inflatable You by Tim Minchin". YouTube. 2006-10-26. Retrieved 2016-04-10.

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