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 […]
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’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” […]
This George and Ira Gershwin song from 1927 was intended as the opening of Act II of Funny Face. This Fred and Adele Astaire musical dealt with multiple parties stealing […]
Ode to a Forgotten Song “Won’t someone please play me!?!” some songs seem to shout out, as they sit in a folder in a box in an archive somewhere mostly […]
The Simple Life – A Gershwin Niece Finds Her Own Way (Far Away from Broadway) While recording my rendition of George Gershwin’s “Six Little Nieces,” I wondered if George had […]
Fred Astaire wrote songs! Some people apparently still don’t know this fact. That’s where I come in. “Tappin’ the Time” is the third earliest Astaire song that we know of, […]
The true worth of a composer is predicated upon their picture appearing on bubble gum cards, according to preeminent musicologist Lucy Van Pelt, pictured at right. George Gershwin sets an even […]
This early Fred Astaire composition was written for the 1923 London show The Co-Optimists and was sung by the song’s lyricist Austin Melford and Phyllis Monkman on the recording that […]
Fred Astaire ‘s song “Not My Girl” was co-composed with Van Phillips and featured lyrics by Desmond Carter, who also wrote lyrics for George Gershwin’s Primrose in 1924. The first recording of “Not […]
Fred Astaire met George Gershwin around 1916 when they were both about 17 years old and George was working at Remick’s music publishing house. Fred and his sister Adele were […]