They Can't Take That Away from Me
They Can not Take That Away from Me is a song by the popular music of 1937 by George Gershwin (music) and Ira Gershwin ( text ) was written and heard " the absolute evergreens from the Great American Songbook".
Use of the song and first recording
Was first presented to the song, the song has the form A1 -A2 -B -A2, by Fred Astaire in the movie musical Dance with Me (1937 ); he sings it turned to Manhattan Ginger Rogers that he listens and then remains in the film on the deck of a ferry from New Jersey. Astaire and Rogers dance of the song accompanied in their last film together, the dancers from Broadway (1949 ), in which they play a married couple. Fred Astaire took They Can not Take That Away from Me on March 18, 1937 Brunswick Records on with the Johnny Green Orchestra. Astaire's recording was a great success and was ten weeks at No. 1 on the U.S. pop charts -.
Cover versions of the song
In the same year the song in 1937 was successful from the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra ( with the Bandvokalisten Jack Leonard, # 11 on the U.S. charts ), Ozzie Nelson ( # 6), Billie Holiday / Teddy Wilson (# 12), the Count Basie Orchestra and Benny Goodman added; the song was later to be the biggest successes of the singer Frank Sinatra.
In the realm of jazz, the song soon became a frequently played jazz standard; Tom Lord lists 536 cover versions of the song including Charlie Parker ( Charlie Parker with Strings 1949), Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan (Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown 1954); Erroll Garner (Concert by the Sea 1955), Ella Fitzgerald in duet with Louis Armstrong ( Ella and Louis 1956), Perry Como, Anita O'Day, Shirley Bassey and June Christy. Lester Young interpreted it in 1958 on the clarinet; Oscar Peterson, and other guest musicians backed 1952 Fred Astaire in a new recording for Mercury. In later years he was also covered by Tony Bennett, Harry Connick Jr., Diana Krall and Rupert Everett / Robbie Williams ( Swing When You're Winning ).
Oscar nomination and further use in the film
George Gershwin died two months after the premiere of the film; the song was nominated in 1937 after Gershwin's death for the Academy Awards in 1938 for Best Song.
The song was played in later years use in several other films, including Kenneth Branagh's musical version of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost ' (2000), in Stephen Herek Mr. Holland's Opus (1995 ) and Barry Levinson's Rain Man (1988).