Songs from Girl Crazy - I Got Rhythm, Embraceable You, But Not for Me, Bidin' My Time, You've Got What Gets Me, Boy! What Love Has Done to Me! (Paperback)

Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Chapters: I Got Rhythm, Embraceable You, but Not for Me, Bidin' My Time, You've Got What Gets Me, Boy What Love Has Done to Me , Treat Me Rough, Sam and Delilah. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: "I Got Rhythm" is a song composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, published in 1930, and which became a widely-known jazz standard. Its chord progression, known as the "Rhythm changes," is the foundation for many other popular jazz tunes such as Charlie Parker's and Dizzy Gillespie's Bebop standard "Anthropology (Thrivin' From a Riff)." The song came from the musical Girl Crazy which also includes another hit song, Embraceable You, and has been sung by many jazz singers since. It was originally written as a slow song for Treasure Girl (1928) and found another, faster setting in Girl Crazy. Ethel Merman sang the song in the original Broadway production and Broadway lore holds that George Gershwin, after seeing her opening reviews, warned her never to take a singing lesson. The song melody uses four notes of the five-note pentatonic scale, first rising, then falling. A rhythmic interest in the song is that the tune keeps behind the main pulse, with the three "I got..." phrases syncopated, appearing one beat behind in the first bar, while the fourth phase "Who could..." rushes in to the song. Its chord progression, known as the "Rhythm changes," is the foundation for many other popular jazz tunes. The song was later expanded and used as the theme in Gershwin's last concert piece Variations on "I Got Rhythm" in 1934. The song has become iconic of the Gershwins, of swing, and of the 1920s. The song is featured in the 1951 musical film An American in Paris. Gene Kelly sang the song and tap-danced, while F...http: //booksllc.net/?id=1945227