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"I Got Rhythm" is a piece composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin and published in 1930, which became a 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' on a Riff)".
Girl Crazy is a 1932 American pre-Code musical film adaptation of the 1930 stage play of the same name.The film was very unlike the stage play except for its score. It was tailored for the comic talents of Wheeler & Woolsey, a popular comedy team of the time.
Ethel Merman, in her Broadway debut [1] [2] sang "I Got Rhythm", "Sam and Delilah", and "Boy! What Love Has Done To Me! " and "became an overnight sensation...that launched her fifty year career." [ 3 ] Also of note is the opening night pit orchestra, which was composed of many well-known jazz musicians, including Benny Goodman , Gene Krupa ...
A fifth bonus disc includes one number ("I Got Rhythm") in stereo, although stereo tracks exist for all the film's musical numbers. MGM technicians transferred the original multi-channel optical film tracks to 1/4" audiotape when ordered to destroy all the elements in the early 1950s; these surviving tracks were released on a stereo CD in 1995.
Pages in category "Songs with lyrics by Ira Gershwin" ... I Got Plenty o' Nuttin' I Got Rhythm; I Loves You, Porgy ... (song) The Man That Got Away;
The term comes from classical music and was first applied to jazz by musicologists in the 1970s and 1980s. ... "Moody's Got Rhythm" [5] James Moody "I Got Rhythm" 1930
The mother of American journalist Austin Tice, who was taken captive during a reporting trip to Syria in August 2012, voiced hope that upheaval in Syria would lead to freedom for her son.. Debra ...
It is based on the rhythm changes from George Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm". The first Ellington recording (4 May 1940) [2] [3] is notable for the driving tenor saxophone solo by Ben Webster. Originally an instrumental, "Cotton Tail" later had lyrics written for it by Ellington.