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Dec.30.2011
Since Christmas I’ve been immersed in a nice big stack of brand new Velva Jean research books, including one about the MGM backlot, the most famous backlot in history. Everything from The Wizard of Oz to Ben-Hur to Singin’ in the Rain was shot there, and it’s estimated that twenty percent of...
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Dec.03.2011
This song was introduced by Tony Bennett in a 1968 recording (see below).
This is the first song that George and Ira finished upon arriving in Los Angeles in August 1936. It was written in their suite at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. It must have taken some daring, even defiance, to begin...
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Nov.27.2011
This song was introduced by Fred and Adele Astaire and Cliff Edwards (“Ukelele Ike”) in Lady, Be Good! At the Liberty Theatre in New York City on December 1, 1924.
In May 1923 Bill Daly and Joe Meyer set an Ira Gershwin lyric, “Little rhythm—go 'way,” to music. The next year that line was...
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Oct.31.2011
This song was introduced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (on roller skates) in Shall We Dance, a film released by RKO on May 7, 1937.
This was the first George and Ira collaboration after Porgy and Bess. It was begun in New York just before they left for Hollywood in August 1936.
In his...
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Jul.02.2011
The Gershwins' “Nice Work if You Can Get It"
This song was introduced by Fred Astaire, Jan Duggan, Mary Dean and Pearl Amatore in A Damsel in Distress, a film released by RKO on November 19, 1937.
George first jotted down he core of this tune in July of 1930. In his notebook it appears after “...
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Aug.27.2009
The Daily Event is proud to have Igor Yopsvoyomatsky, editor-in chief of paranoiaisfact.com, to answers readers' questions.
Dear Igor,
I sell souvenirs to tourists on the Staten Island Ferry and after eight years of Dubya I can't give America away. Nobody wants Statue of Liberty piggy banks, ...
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