'The Half of It, Dearie' Blues

cult January 2025 April 2016 The Half of It, Dearie' Blues File:The Half of It Dearie, Blues.jpg 1924 12 01 Harms, Inc.Library of Congress. Copyright Office. https://archive.org/details/catalogofcopyri193libr Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1924 Musical Compositions New Series Vol 19 Part 3 1924 U.S. Govt. Print. Off. United States Copyright Office English Fred Astaire and Kathlene Martyn 1924 George Gershwin Ira Gershwin "The Half of it, Dearie' Blues" is a song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It was introduced by Fred Astaire and Kathlene Martyn in the 1924 musical Lady be Good. Billman Larry Fred Astaire - A Bio-bibliography Greenwood Press 1997 Connecticut 57 0-313-29010-5 In his 1959 book Lyrics on Several Occasions, Ira Gershwin noted: "Some sort of grievance is featured in the musical-comedy adaptation of The Blues as evidence here in 'The Half of It, Dearie Blues' and in the [Jerome] Kern-[Anne] Caldwell 'Left All Alone Again Blues'Left All Alone Again Blues is from the 1920 musical The Night Boat.—but of course in such as these the lyric approach isn't attempting to plumb the melancholy depths of the real Blues."Gershwin Ira Lyrics on Several Occasions: A Selection of Stage & Screen Lyrics Written for Sundry Situations; and Now Arranged in Arbitrary Categories. To Which Have Been Added Many Informative Annotations & Disquisitions on Their Why & Wherefore, Their Whom-for, Their How, and Matters Associative Alfred A. Knopf 1959 34 Recordings Fred Astaire with George Gershwin at the piano - Fred Astaire - Complete London Sessions. In this first ever recording of the number, on April 19, 1926, Astaire includes a short tap-dancing section and asks Gershwin: "How's that, George," to which Gershwin replies: "That's fine, Freddy, keep going." Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook (1959) Notes References External links Original sheet music Digitized copy in the Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection, Sheridan Libraries and University Museums, Johns Hopkins University. Category:Songs with music by George Gershwin Category:Songs with lyrics by Ira Gershwin Category:Fred Astaire songs Category:1924 songs Category:Songs from Lady, Be Good (musical) Category:Articles with quotation marks in the title