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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.
The Blues for Alice changes, Bird changes, Bird Blues, or New York Blues changes, is a chord progression, often named after Charlie Parker ("Bird"), which is a variation of the twelve-bar blues. The progression uses a series of sequential ii–V or secondary ii–V progressions, and has been used in pieces such as Parker's "Blues for Alice".
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 ...
I'm a Bad, Bad Man 1942–1946 I'm a Dancing Teacher Now 1912–1916 I'm a Dumbbell 1917–1921 I'm a Happy Married Man 1907–1911 I'm a Vamp from East Broadway, 1917–1921 I'm Afraid, Pretty Maid, I'm Afraid 1912–1916 I'm an Indian, Too: 1942–1946 I'm Beginning to Miss You 1947–1951 I'm Down in Honolulu Looking Them Over 1912–1916
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 ...
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 -
"Blue Skies" is a popular song, written by Irving Berlin in 1926. "Blue Skies" is one of many popular songs whose lyrics use a "bluebird of happiness" as a symbol of cheer: "Bluebirds singing a song/Nothing but bluebirds all day long." The sunny optimism of the lyrics are undercut by the minor key giving the words an ironic feeling.
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]