- Style
- Jazz
- Tradition
- Jazz standard
- Form
- ABAC, 32 bars
- Key
- G
- Level
- 3
- Played on
- Voice
In the public domain. Source
Music
The 32 bar refrain. A ballad, with a light swing.
80bpm
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Chord chart
History
The Gershwins wrote it in 1928 for East Is West, an operetta that never opened. Two years later they put it in Girl Crazy, where Ginger Rogers sang it in a number staged by Fred Astaire, and it was published in 1930.
Billie Holiday's 1944 recording went into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2005. Charlie Parker recorded it in 1947, and Judy Garland sang it in the 1943 film of Girl Crazy.