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I Can’t Understand (Why You Can’t Understand Me)
Ginger Rogers wrote the song “I Can’t Understand (Why You Can’t Understand Me)” in or before 1936. What I can’t understand is exactly how much she (as well as another […]
Gershwin Song Sketches, April 1924
100 years ago this month, Gershwin wrote close to a dozen song sketches that have survived in his hand-written notebooks at the Library of Congress. Some sketches are more developed […]
Hollywood – Rare Gershwin Song from the George White Scandals of 1924
Gershwin’s song “Hollywood” once had lyrics by Buddy DeSylva, though they appear to be lost. What I found was the rather obvious spot in the melody where the word “Hollywood” […]