Ira Gershwin
Subtitle: selected lyrics
By: edited by Robert Kimball.
Contributors: Kimball, Robert.
Series: American poets project -- 29; American poets project -- 29.
Publisher: Library of America
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9781598530521; 9781598530520
Subjects: Songs, English -- United States -- Texts; Popular music -- United States -- Texts; Musicals -- Excerpts -- Librettos
Genres: Texts; Excerpts; Librettos
Work titles: Lyrics.
Description: Overview: 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.
Notes: Includes index.