Embraceable You

This article is about the Gershwin popular song. For other uses, see Embraceable You (disambiguation).

"Embraceable You"
Song
Written	1928

"Embraceable You" is a popular song, with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. The song was originally written in 1928 for an unpublished operetta named East Is West. It was eventually published in 1930 and included in the Broadway musical Girl Crazy where it was performed by Ginger Rogers in a song and dance routine choreographed by Fred Astaire. Billie Holiday's 1944 recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2005.

Notable Recordings

• Oleta Adams, on the album The Glory of Gershwin (1994)
• Paul Anka
• Chet Baker, on the eponymous album (1957)
• Clifford Brown - Clifford Brown with Strings (1955)
• Nat King Cole
• Ornette Coleman - This Is Our Music (1959)
• Bing Crosby
• Johnny Dankworth - Too Cool For The Blues (2010)
• Doris Day
• Jimmy Dorsey - May 1941 (Decca 3928)
• Gloria Estefan on the album The Standards (2013)
• Bill Evans - Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival (1968)
• Ella Fitzgerald, on the album Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook (1959) and Nice Work If You Can Get It, Pablo, 1983.
• Med Flory and Supersax - Live in '75: Japanese Tour (1999), The Best Of Supersax And The LA Voices (2005)
• Jane Froman sings in her 1952 #1 Best-selling soundtrack album from the film With a Song in My Heart
• Judy Garland - Girl Crazy, film (1943)
• Herbie Hancock, on his (1998) album Gershwin's World
• Nicole Henry
• Billie Holiday (1944)
• Etta James on her 1994 cover album Mystery Lady: Songs of Billie Holiday
• Jose James & Jef Neve - For All We Know [2010]
• Eyran Katsenelenbogen (2007)
• Cleo Laine on her 1986 album That Old Feeling
• Liberace
• Wynton Marsalis, live performance at the Newport Jazz Festival (1989)
• Maureen McGovern
• Idina Menzel
• Liza Minnelli, on her 1996 album Gently
• Charlie Parker - Cool Bird (1947)
• Louis Prima
• Dianne Reeves on the album The Calling: Celebrating Sarah Vaughan (2001)
• Duncan Sheik, on Red Hot + Rhapsody
• Frank Sinatra (1941)
• Brent Spiner, on the album Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back
• Jo Stafford
• Rod Stewart on the album Stardust: The Great American Songbook, Volume III (2004)
• Art Tatum
• Chucho Valdés
• Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown (1954)
• Ben Webster and Harry "Sweets" Edison, on the EP album Ben and "Sweets"
• Andy Williams - Warm and Willing (1962)

See also

• List of 1930s jazz standards