Embraceable You

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Embraceable You 1930
George Gershwin (m) Ira Gershwin (w)
From show “Girl Crazy”

This was originally meant for superstar Marilyn Miller in a musical called “Ming Toy” that never was produced. In “Girl Crazy,” it is sung by Ginger Rogers and Allen Kearns in a staging by Fred Astaire. It is sung by Gene Kelley in “An American in Paris” (1951) and by Jane Froman dubbing for Susan Hayward in “With a Song in My Heart” (1952).

Notes by Frank Behrens