Embraceable You

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jazz standard pop standard song

"Embraceable You" is a popular jazz and pop standard composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, widely recorded and performed since its debut in the 1930 musical Girl Crazy.

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Label Occurrences
Embraceable You canonical 10
S'Wonderful 1

Statements (52)

Predicate Object
instanceOf jazz standard ⓘ
pop standard ⓘ
song ⓘ
associatedWith Broadway ⓘ
Hollywood film adaptations ⓘ
composer George Gershwin ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
era Tin Pan Alley era ⓘ
surface form: Tin Pan Alley
firstAppearanceIn Girl Crazy ⓘ
form popular song ⓘ
genre jazz ⓘ
traditional pop ⓘ
hasInstrumentalVersions true ⓘ
hasNotablePerformer Art Tatum ⓘ
Bill Evans ⓘ
Billie Holiday ⓘ
Charlie Parker ⓘ
Chet Baker ⓘ
Clifford Brown ⓘ
Dinah Washington ⓘ
Duke Ellington ⓘ
Ella Fitzgerald ⓘ
Frank Sinatra ⓘ
Judy Garland ⓘ
Michael Feinstein ⓘ
Miles Davis ⓘ
Nat King Cole ⓘ
Sarah Vaughan ⓘ
Tony Bennett ⓘ
Wynton Marsalis ⓘ
hasNotableRecordingDecade 1930s ⓘ
1940s ⓘ
1950s ⓘ
1960s ⓘ
1970s ⓘ
1980s ⓘ
1990s ⓘ
2000s ⓘ
2010s ⓘ
isStandardIn American popular music repertoire ⓘ
jazz repertoire ⓘ
vocal jazz repertoire ⓘ
language English ⓘ
lyricist Ira Gershwin ⓘ
lyricsBy Ira Gershwin ⓘ
musicalTheatreWork Girl Crazy ⓘ
musicBy George Gershwin ⓘ
partOf Great American Songbook ⓘ
performanceType vocal ⓘ
publicationYear 1930 ⓘ
theme romantic love ⓘ
writtenFor Broadway musical ⓘ

Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Girl Crazy (1943 film) → featuresSong → Embraceable You ⓘ
George Gershwin → notableWork → Embraceable You ⓘ
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book → includesWork → Embraceable You ⓘ
Great American Songbook → hasNotableSong → Embraceable You ⓘ
Ira Gershwin → notableWork → Embraceable You ⓘ
Girl Crazy → featuresSong → Embraceable You ⓘ
subject surface form: Girl Crazy (1943 film)
An American in Paris → featuresSong → Embraceable You ⓘ
Nat King Cole Trio → notableSong → Embraceable You ⓘ
Funny Face (1927 stage musical) → featuresSong → Embraceable You ⓘ
this entity surface form: S'Wonderful
Gershwin estate → hasRightsOver → Embraceable You ⓘ
King Cole Trio → notableWork → Embraceable You ⓘ