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Girl Crazy is a studio album by Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. It was released on April 6, 1944, by Decca Records. The album features songs presented in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer eponymous motion picture. [1] Garland's recording sessions for the album took place during November 1943. [2]
"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 1930 musical by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin and book by Guy Bolton and John McGowan. Ethel Merman made her stage debut in the first production and co-lead Ginger Rogers became an overnight star. Rich in song, it follows the story of Danny Churchill who has been sent to fictional Custerville, Arizona, to manage ...
In 1929, the Gershwin brothers created Show Girl; [28] the following year brought Girl Crazy, [29] which introduced the standards "Embraceable You", sung by Ginger Rogers, and "I Got Rhythm". 1931's Of Thee I Sing became the first musical comedy to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama; the winners were George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, and Ira ...
Variations on "I Got Rhythm" is a set of variations for orchestra and piano solo composed by George Gershwin in 1933–34. The piece is dedicated "to [his] brother Ira". Gershwin composed the new piece for his forthcoming concert tour with the Leo Reisman Orchestra, as an alternative to his Rhapsody in Blue and Concerto in F.
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Girl Crazy's VHS format was first released on March 22, 1991 as part of the MGM Musicals lineup. MGM also released the laserdisc format while Warner Bros. re-released the former format in 2001. The DVD was released as part of The Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland Collection on September 25, 2007. A fifth bonus disc includes one number ("I Got Rhythm ...
The title was changed to I've Got Rhythm [4] then When the Boys Meet the Girls. [5] Presnell played the same role as Mickey Rooney in the original. Presnell said "When we did Molly Brown on Broadway, we had a standing joke whenever I didn't do something right. I said 'Well why don't you get Mickey Rooney?'." [6] Filming started July 1965.