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Music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin 1923 – The Sunshine Trail (title song of silent film with accompaniment music) 1931 – Delicious; 1937 – Shall We Dance; 1937 – A Damsel in Distress; 1938 – The Goldwyn Follies (Gershwin died during filming; Vernon Duke completed and adapted Gershwin's songs, and composed additional ones)
Rhapsody in Blue is a 1924 musical composition for solo piano and jazz band by George Gershwin.Commissioned by bandleader Paul Whiteman, the work combines elements of classical music with jazz-influenced effects and premiered in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music" on February 12, 1924, in Aeolian Hall, New York City.
The first jazz recording was made by Sidney Bechet in 1954 under the title "La Complainte de Mackie". Louis Armstrong's 1955 version established the song's popularity in the jazz world. [135] It is also known as "The Ballad of Mack the Knife". [135] "Nagasaki" [136] is a jazz song composed by Harry Warren with lyrics by Mort Dixon.
The two collaborated on the Broadway musicals Piccadilly to Broadway (1920) and For Goodness' Sake (1922), and jointly composed the score for Our Nell (1923). This was the beginning of a long friendship. Daly was a frequent arranger, orchestrator and conductor of Gershwin's music, and Gershwin periodically turned to him for musical advice. [21]
Dinah Shore used it as her theme song, and took her stage name from the song title. [28] [29] 1925 – "Squeeze Me" [30] is a jazz song composed by Fats Waller. The lyrics were credited to Clarence Williams, although Andy Razaf claims to have actually written the lyrics. [31] The song was based on an old blues tune called "The Boy in the Boat ...
The song was charted in 1920 for 18 weeks, holding the No. 1 position for nine. [5] It sold a million sheet music copies and an estimated two million records. [ 6 ] It became Gershwin's first hit and the biggest-selling song of his career; the money he earned from it allowed him to concentrate on theatre work and films rather than writing ...
Gershwin began composing the song in December 1933, attempting to create his own spiritual in the style of the African American folk music of the period. [4] [5] Gershwin had completed setting DuBose Heyward's poem to music by February 1934, and spent the next 20 months completing and orchestrating the score of the opera.
Paul Whiteman, the music director and conductor of the Scandals of 1922 (with his Orchestra in the pit), which Gershwin was again hired for, had previously worked with him when the Paul Whiteman Orchestra recorded the latter's song "South Sea Island" in 1921. Gershwin's lyricist Buddy DeSylva originally conceived a plan for writing a "jazz ...