Oh, Lady Be Good!

Oh, Lady Be Good! is a song by George Gershwin (music) and Ira Gershwin ( text ) from the year 1924. It was written for the Broadway musical Lady, Be Good.

The song

The song is almost always held in G major and invested in the AABA. He is actually a ballad. The song has a very frugal theme with the A- part sixteen shades on which actually musically only a falling triplet in measure 3 ( dhg ) and measure 5 ( cda ), which led to a long d one octave lower is striking. On this triplet, the words " Lady Be Good " ( and later " misunderstood " or "babe in the wood " ) have been placed.

Effective history

The title of the musical Black- Eyed Susan was originally intended, but as the playwright Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson heard the song for the first time, they decided to name the musical Lady, Be Good. The Musical Fred and Adele Astaire played the lead roles. The song Oh, Lady Be Good! has sung in the first staging for 330 performances, beginning with the first performance on December 1, 1924, Walter Catlett.

In 1925, the song three times in the charts twice thereof in an instrumental version:

Later, the song has become a jazz standard; time, he has been interpreted in at least medium fast tempo: Coleman Hawkins had him in 1934 during his first European tour in the repertoire. The saxophonist Lester Young played in 1936 one of his most famous solos in this song with the orchestra of Count Basie. Other versions were by Alice Babs, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Django Reinhardt, Slim & Slam, Art Tatum, the Kansas City Five, Teddy Wilson, Lionel Hampton, Sidney Bechet, Fats Navarro / Tadd Dameron, Joe Pass, Zoot Sims, Earl Wild and Snooky Young recorded. The Ernst Höllerhagen quartet recorded a version in 1945 in Zurich on; in Germany the title on the first German Jazz Festival in 1953 played by a big band, among other things, Fred Bunge, Max Greger, Paul Kuhn and Hans Last belonged.

The song with the singer Ella Fitzgerald particularly connected. Fitzgerald recorded the song several times; their recording from 1947 with the orchestra of Bob Haggart is known for Fitzgerald's scat solo. The song was brought to a popular jam session - piece and in particular at the Jazz at the Philharmonic concerts again and again to the performance. Dizzy Gillespie used the piece as a comic number for singer Joe Carroll. Dee Dee Bridgewater is interpreted in reference to Ella Fitzgerald.

The song was also in the film Lady Be Good: Played (1941, directed by Norman Z. McLeod ).

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