Ira Gershwin: Selected Lyrics

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The collaboration of Ira and George Gershwin was one of the summits of American popular music. Ira Gershwin's lyrics - with their stylish simplicity, exuberant comic invention and colloquial eloquence - have entered international culture. Robert Kimball has collected the most memorable of them into a beguiling, compact volume that includes 'Someone to Watch Over Me', 'My One and Only', 'Let's Call the Whole Thing Off', 'A Foggy Day (In London Town)', 'Nice Work If You Can Get It' and dozens more.

Robert Kimballis a historian of the American musical theater whose books includeThe Gershwins(with Alfred Simon),Reminiscing with Sissle and Blake(with William Bolcom),Reading Lyrics(with Robert Gottlieb), and volumes devoted to the complete lyrics of Lorenz Hart, Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, and Frank Loesser. He editedCole Porter- Selected Lyrics, also for the The Library of America's American Poets Project.

"Chock full of genius yet compact enough to slip in a pocket." -Playbill.com