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Nov 24, 2011 · Fred and Adele Astaire performing George Gershwin's "I'd Rather Charleston", with Gershwin at the piano. Recorded in London in 1926, from his score for "Lady...
"Fascinating Rhythm" is a popular song written by George Gershwin in 1924 with lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It was first introduced by Cliff Edwards, Fred Astaire and Adele Astaire in the Broadway musical Lady Be Good. The Astaires also recorded the song on April 19, 1926, in London with George Gershwin on the piano (English Columbia 3968 or 8969).
Aug 15, 2019 · “THE HALF OF IT DEARIE, BLUES” – Fred Astaire with George Gershwin (April 20, 1926) George & Ira Gershwin. In December 1924, one of the most important events in Broadway musical history occurred when George and Ira Gershwin collaborated on their first hit show, Lady, Be Good!
Fascinating rhythm, I’m all a-quiver. In his 1959 autobiography, Fred Astaire recounted the close relationship between dance and song that “Fascinating Rhythm” had at its origins: [In the number], Adele and I were stuck for an exit step.... George happened to drop by and I asked him to look at the routine.
Funny Face is a 1927 musical composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and book by Fred Thompson and Paul Gerard Smith. When it opened on Broadway on November 22, 1927, as the first show performed in the newly built Alvin Theatre, it starred Fred Astaire and his sister Adele Astaire.
George Gershwin ( / ˈɡɜːrʃ.wɪn /; born Jacob Gershwine; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres. Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue (1924) and An American in Paris (1928), the songs "Swanee" (1919) and ...
In common with Fitzgerald’s prose, the music made by the Gershwins and the Astaires--sublimely captured in the 1926 recording of “Fascinating Rhythm”--beat with the heart of a generation that was brash and vulnerable, headlong and wistful, worldly and impossibly young.
