Embraceable You-Arne Fogel
Series: Minnesota Voices- Certain Standards with Arne Fogel
From: KBEM
Length: 00:03:33
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The show “Girl Crazy” was a smash hit for tunesmiths George and Ira Gershwin in 1930, and though it was introduced to post-market-crash audiences, it had something of the heady, carefree, frothy feel of pre-crash “Jazz-age” entertainment. That doesn’t mean the songs provided by the Gershwins were without depth, however. One of the pair’s most poignant songs was written for this show: the timelessly tender “Embraceable You”. Lyricist Ira Gershwin once claimed that he viewed his brother’s melodies as rather mosaic like. His challenge was to fit words to these textured, occasionally “uneven” melodies, adding a quaint and witty “cohesion” to these lovely, idiosyncratic creations. With“Embraceable You”, Ira took advantage of the tune’s odd rests and pauses, by crafting playful rhymes that straddled, rather than avoided these rests. Today, after decades in admiration of this miraculous creation, it’s hard to imagine the song any other way. Here’s “Embraceable You”…
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The show “Girl Crazy” was a smash hit for tunesmiths George and Ira Gershwin in 1930, and though it was introduced to post-market-crash audiences, it had something of the heady, carefree, frothy feel of pre-crash “Jazz-age” entertainment. That doesn’t mean the songs provided by the Gershwins were without depth, however. One of the pair’s most poignant songs was written for this show: the timelessly tender “Embraceable You”. Lyricist Ira Gershwin once claimed that he viewed his brother’s melodies as rather mosaic like. His challenge was to fit words to these textured, occasionally “uneven” melodies, adding a quaint and witty “cohesion” to these lovely, idiosyncratic creations. With“Embraceable You”, Ira took advantage of the tune’s odd rests and pauses, by crafting playful rhymes that straddled, rather than avoided these rests. Today, after decades in admiration of this miraculous creation, it’s hard to imagine the song any other way. Here’s “Embraceable You”…
