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Brightly
This George Gershwin song sketch dated 2/1/23 and only described as “Brightly” seemed to call out for an Ira Gershwin lyric. Fortunately, the book The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin […]
Where East Meets West
This 1921 George Gershwin ditty about a romantic rendezvous at the Panama Canal seems innocuous enough, but evidently none other than humorist and columnist Robert Benchley saw William Randolph Hearst’s hand in […]
Baby Dolls
Lost lyrics. Unpublished music. We’re lucky that “Baby Dolls” survived these last 100 years at all! This Gershwin song from 1919 only existed in two orchestrated versions in the Library of […]
