This 1930 edition also had songs in it by Vernon Duke and Ira Gershwin, by E. Y. Harburg and Duke, and by Harry Myers.

A third single was released amid controversy before Christmas 1984: a revival of " It Ain't Necessarily So ", the George and Ira Gershwin classic ( from Porgy and Bess ) which questions the authenticity of Biblical tales.

* 1896 – Ira Gershwin, American lyricist ( d. 1983 )

His show-stopping number was " Tchaikovsky ", by Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin, in which he sang the names of a whole string of Russian composers at breakneck speed, seemingly without taking a breath.

Ira Gershwin ( December 6, 1896 – August 17, 1983 ) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century.

It was not until 1924 that Ira and George Gershwin teamed up to write the music for their first Broadway hit Lady, Be Good !.

The George and Ira Gershwin Lifetime Musical Achievement Award was established in 1988 by UCLA to honor the brothers for their contribution to music and for their gift to UCLA of the fight song " Strike Up the Band for UCLA ".

Ira Gershwin was a joyous listener to the sounds of the modern world.

In 1987, Ira's widow, Leonore Gershwin, established the Ira Gershwin Literacy Center at University Settlement, a century-old institution at 185 Eldridge Street on the Lower East Side, New York City.

The George and Ira Gershwin Collection is at the Library of Congress Music Division.

* Ira Gershwin Collection at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin

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Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley formed the band as a husband / wife duo in 1984.

Their true appearance would be concealed beneath masks, according to writer / producer Ira Steven Behr, because " I wasn't really in the mood to come up with a new alien race.

The 2004 off-season was relatively quiet ; signings included former All-Rookie teamer OL / DL Bryan Henderson, OS Ira Gooch, and QB John Fitzgerald.

# " I Can't Get Started " ( Vernon Duke / Lyrics: Ira Gershwin )

# " But Not For Me " ( George Gershwin / Lyrics: Ira Gershwin )

Other artists of the orchestra and Cosmic Legends have included Hayes Greenfield ( sax ), Perry Robinson ( clarinet ), Wayne Lopes ( guitar ), Dave Douglas ( trumpet ), Gloria Tropp ( vocals ), director / pianist Sylvie Degiez along with poets and actors Ira Cohen, Taylor Mead and Judith Malina ( Living Theater ).

* Art Black / Ira Robbins.

The rim shot has become " standard " practice amongst many Black / African-American drummers of Gospel Music and Popular Music amongst drummers such as Joe Dunn ( Joe Dunn and Family and Friends ), Ira King and Nisan Stewart ( Timbaland and Missy Elliott ).

This pejorative use can be heard in the introduction of the 1930 George and Ira Gershwin song But Not For Me: " I never want to hear from any cheerful pollyannas / who tell me fate supplies a mate / that's all bananas.

The group now consists of William Bright ( vocals ), Carlton Lewis, III ( vocals ), Torrey Nettles ( drums / vocals ),) and Lyndon Baines Jones ( guitar & vocals and Ira Tucker, Jr ( vocals )

Humanities and Social Sciences Library / Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs

By Jennifer MacDonald / Ira Rosen © MMVI, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.

* This American Life with Ira Glass ( 1 / 1 / 97 )

At that period, the Samuel Goldwyn film adaptation of the George Gershwin / DuBose Heyward / Ira Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess was in production, set for release in June 1959.

Her Holly Beth Vincent album, titled Holly and the Italians fulfill contractual obligations with Virgin Records is one of Ira Robbins / Trouser Press record guide's top albums of all-time.

With Morris Stoloff, he shared the 1944 Oscar for the popular Gene Kelly / Rita Hayworth musical Cover Girl, which featured songs by Jerome Kern and Ira Gershwin.

* Ira Newble ( c / o 1993 ), forward for the National Basketball Association Los Angeles Lakers

) Hart continued to write plays after parting with Kaufman, such as Christopher Blake ( 1946 ) and Light Up the Sky ( 1948 ), as well as the book for the musical Lady In The Dark ( 1941 ), with songs by Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin.

* 1941 Lady in the Dark, with Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin

However, Sherman had trouble in getting permission to record for profit from some of the well-known composers and lyricists, who did not tolerate parodies or satires of their melodies and lyrics, including Irving Berlin, Richard Rodgers, George and Ira Gershwin, Alan Jay Lerner, and Frederick Loewe, as well as the estates of Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Kurt Weill, and Bertolt Brecht, which prevented him from releasing parodies or satires of their songs.

* Cellini was also the subject of an eponymous opera by Hector Berlioz and a Broadway musical, The Firebrand of Florence, by Ira Gershwin and Kurt Weill.

In the 1941 musical Lady in the Dark by Moss Hart, Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin the character of Alison Du Bois was based on Vreeland.

It originally had been planned as a play with recurrent musical themes for Katharine Cornell by Moss Hart, Kurt Weill, and Ira Gershwin, but by the time the first act was completed it was clear it was very much a musical Cornell agreed was beyond her capability as a performer.

Lady in the Dark is a musical with music by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and book and direction by Moss Hart.

Some of the lyricists and composers include Cole Porter, Kurt Weill, Irving Berlin, Noël Coward, Vincent Youmans, Vernon Duke, Johnny Mercer, Jerome Kern, Ira Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Alan Jay Lerner, Arthur Schwartz, Rodgers, Hart, DeSylva, Brown and Henderson.

The Firebrand of Florence is a Broadway musical in two acts, written by Kurt Weill ( music ), Ira Gershwin ( lyrics ), and Edwin Justus Mayer and Gershwin, based on Mayer's play.