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"No Strings (I'm Fancy Free)" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin for the 1935 film Top Hat, where it was introduced by Fred Astaire. In the film, the character played by Astaire is advised to get married and Astaire responds by saying he prefers to remain as a bachelor and he launches into this song and a major dance routine.
No Strings (I'm Fancy Free) 1935: Irving Berlin: Irving Berlin: Top Hat: New York, June 26, 1935, Brunswick 7486 Not My Girl: 1929: Fred Astaire, Van Phillips: Desmond Carter: London, April 5, 1929, EC 5174 Oh Gee, Oh Gosh: 1922: Adele Astaire: William Daly: Arthur Francis aka Ira Gershwin: For Goodness Sake: London, October 18, 1923, HMV B1719 ...
The show was the first stage musical that Berlin wrote. It ran for 175 performances at the New Amsterdam Theater in New York City.The one song from the show that is well-remembered today is "Play a Simple Melody," one of the few true examples of counterpoint in American popular music — a melody running against a second melody, each with independent lyrics.
No Strings, an album by Sheena Easton "No Strings (I'm Fancy Free)", a song written by Irving Berlin for the 1935 film Top Hat "No Strings" (song), a song by Chloe Howl "No Strings", a song by Ed Sheeran from the album -
An open tuning allows a chord to be played by strumming the strings when "open", or while fretting no strings. The base chord consists of at least three notes and may include all the strings or a subset. The tuning is named for the base chord when played open, typically a major triad, and each major triad can be played by barring exactly one ...
The first four bars of "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" is a song written by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin for the 1937 film Shall We Dance, where it was introduced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as part of a celebrated dance duet on roller skates. [5]
A comical dance routine used by a rare breed of bird in a mating tactic that has never before been filmed in the wild. Sir David Attenborough has narrated the bizarre display of the male tragopan.
No Strings is a musical drama with book by Samuel A. Taylor and words and music by Richard Rodgers. No Strings is the only Broadway score for which Rodgers wrote both lyrics and music, and the first musical he composed after the death of his long-time collaborator, Oscar Hammerstein II. The musical opened on Broadway in 1962 and ran for 580 ...