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It began life in 1930 as a nine-bar phrase with the working title "There's No Stopping Me Now". Its title phrase "Nice work if you can get it" came from an English magazine. [6] [7] It was one of nine songs the Gershwin brothers wrote for the movie A Damsel in Distress in which it was performed by Fred Astaire with backing vocals by The ...
Sarah Vaughan is the debut 1950 LP album of Sarah Vaughan with George Treadwell and His All Stars, 10" Columbia Records CL 6133. The instrumentalists comprised Billy Taylor Sr. bass, clarinet Tony Scott, drums J.C. Heard, guitars Freddie Green and Mundell Lowe, piano Jimmy Jones, on tenor saxophone Budd Johnson, trombone Bennie Green, and trumpet Miles Davis. [1]
Nice Work If You Can Get It is a musical featuring songs by George and Ira Gershwin, with a book written by Joe DiPietro, and based on material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse. [1] Nice Work premiered on Broadway in April 2012.
Nice Work If You Can Get It may refer to: "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (song), a 1937 popular standard by George and Ira Gershwin; Nice Work If You Can Get It, a 1983 album by Ella Fitzgerald; Nice Work If You Can Get It, a 2012 Broadway musical with a score by George and Ira Gershwin
He recorded the song again in 1960 and it was included in his album Nice 'n' Easy. Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Sings Gershwin (1950), Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook (1959), and Nice Work If You Can Get It, a 1983 Pablo release with André Previn; Gene Kelly - an outtake from the film An American in Paris (1951). [7]
"Blah, Blah, Blah" is a 1931 song with music by George Gershwin, to lyrics by his brother Ira Gershwin. [1] Originally written for the abortive East is West [2] it was taken "out of the trunk" by the Gershwins for the 1931 film Delicious. [3]
15 Phrases To Replace 'Nice to E-Meet You,' According to Etiquette Experts 1. "It's great to connect with you." Jo Hayes, founder of EtiquetteExpert.Org, suggests this modern twist. She explains ...
Initially, "Someone to Watch Over Me" was written by George Gershwin for the musical Oh, Kay! as a "fast and jazzy" up-tempo rhythm tune [8] [9] – marked scherzando (playful) in the sheet music [7] – but in the 1930s and 1940s it was recorded by singers in a slower ballad form, which became the standard.