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Ira Gershwin Selected Lyrics

by Ira Gershwin, Robert Kimball
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Synopsis

The collaboration of Ira and George Gershwin was one of the summits of American popular music. Ira Gershwin's lyrics-with their stylish simplicity, exuberant comic invention, and colloquial eloquence-have entered the culture, and Robert Kimball has collected the most memorable of them into a beguiling collection that includes

Fascinating Rhythm Oh, Lady, Be Good!
Someone to Watch Over Me
'S Wonderful My One and Only How Long Has This Been Going On?
I've Got a Crush on You Embraceable You I Got Rhythm But Not for Me Let's Call the Whole Thing Off They Can't Take That Away from Me A Foggy Day (In London Town)
Nice Work If You Can Get It Long Ago (and Far Away)
The Man That Got Away and dozens more.

About the Author, Ira Gershwin

Robert Kimball, editor, is a historian of the American musical theater whose books include The Gershwins (with Alfred Simon), Reminiscing with Sissle and Blake (with William Bolcom), Reading Lyrics (with Robert Gottlieb), and volumes of the complete lyrics of Hart, Gershwin, Berlin, and Loesser. He also edited Cole Porter: Selected Lyrics, volume #21 in The Library of America's American Poets Project.

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Book Details

Published
September 1, 2009
Publisher
Library of America
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781598530520

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