Music: George Gershwin play I Got Rhythm (full) - Wiki data about the song
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George Gershwin I Got Rhythm (full)
"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)".
History
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 French-speaking children whom he had just taught a few words of English shouted the phrases "I got" each time they appeared in the lyrics.
It is also featured in the film Mr. Holland's Opus, during a scene in which students are trying out for a Gershwin revue.
A partial list of singers who have recorded this song would take up several pages. The most popular versions are those of The Happenings (#3 on the US charts in 1967[1]), Judy Garland, Ethel Merman, and more recently, Jodi Benson.
It is a very popular jazz standard. Many songs use its chord progression, such as Ornette Coleman's "Chippie". Charlie Parker alone based many songs on its chord progression, e.g. "Moose the Mooche". Gary Larson referenced the song in the Far Side.
In 1939, I Got Rhythm was arranged and orchestrated by Bruce Chase for a premiere performance by the Kansas Philharmonic, now the Kansas City Symphony.[2]
The piece I Got Rhythm was originally penned in the key of D flat major.
A version of the song set to a disco beat was recorded by Ethel Merman for her infamous, campy Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.[3]
Another version of the song was arranged for solo guitar by Ton Van Bergeyk. It appears on the album Black and Tan Fantasy. Mike Oldfield and Wendy Roberts performed a version on Oldfield's Platinum album.
At the BBC's Over The Rainbow live events, winner of I'd Do Anything Jodie Prenger sang I Got Rhythm with one of the BBC Singers and the audience joined in, in 2010.
Lyrics
As written by Ira Gershwin
Days can be sunny with never a sigh;
Don't need what money can buy.
Birds in the tree sing their dayful of song,
Why shouldn't we sing along?
I'm chipper all the day,
Happy with my lot.
How do I get that way?
Look at what I've got:
I got rhythm
I got music
I got my man/girl
Who could ask for anything more?
I got daisies
In green pastures,
I got my man/girl
Who could ask for anything more?
Ol'Man Trouble,
I don't mind him.
You won't find him
'Round my door.
I got starlight,
I got sweet dreams,
I got my man/girl,
Who could ask for anything more?
Who could ask for anything more?
Notable recordings
* Judy Garland
* Bing Crosby with Peggy Lee
* The Happenings
* Chelsea Krombach performed the song for her debut album Look for the Silver Lining.
* Ernestine Anderson
* Fred Astaire
* Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook (1959)
* Gene Kelly
* Ethel Merman[4]
* The Residents recorded the song for George & James, and also done live for their 13th Anniversary Tour in 1986.
* Barbra Streisand recorded the song for "...And Other Musical Instruments"[5]
* Martin Taylor recorded the song for "Martin Taylor".
* Hiromi Uehara
* Wendi Williams & Bill Elliott Swing Orchestra recorded the song for the film and soundtrack of Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999). In the beginning of the film, Dorothy Dandridge (portrayed by Halle Berry) performs the song in a racially segregated Miami nightclub.
* Ethel Waters's performance is the one that is selected in the compilation The Essential George Gershwin.
* Lena Horne
References
1. ^ "See You in September", Billboard. Accessed October 3, 2007.
2. ^ "Violinist Arranges Laughter at Symphony:" The Milwaukee Sentinel, April 11, 1984
3. ^ The Ethel Merman Disco Album, Track 7. 1979 recording reissued on CD in 2002 by Universal Music Enterprises, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
4. ^ Ethel Merman with Orchestra Directed by Jay Blackton. Recorded December 12, 1947, New York City, Master #74230-A, originally released on Decca single 24453 B and Ethel Merman: Songs She Made Famous, album DA-681, June 28, 1948. Source notes from Front Row Center: The Broadway Gold Box, 1935 - 1988. Four Compact Disc Set, Broadway Gold/MCA Classics, MCAD4-11353 (1996)
5. ^ Barbra Streisand and Other Musical Instruments, Columbia Records/CBS, Inc. (1973)
Sources
* Greenberg, Rodney (1998). George Gershwin. Phaidon Press. ISBN 0-7148-3504-8.
* Gershwin, George (1996). The Complete Gershwin Keyboard Works. WB MUSIC CORP. ISBN 0-29156-29838-3.
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