They Can't Take That Away from Me

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"They Can't Take That Away from Me" is a classic American popular song by George and Ira Gershwin, famously introduced by Fred Astaire and widely regarded as a jazz standard.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf jazz standard
popular song
song
associatedWithSongwriters Ira Gershwin
surface form: Gershwin brothers
composer George Gershwin
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
coveredBy numerous jazz artists
era 1930s American popular music
filmReleaseYearOfIntroduction 1937
firstPerformer Fred Astaire
form 32-bar song form
genre jazz
traditional pop
hasCulturalStatus American standard
jazz standard
hasLyricsTheme enduring love
romantic remembrance
hasNotableRecording Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong version
Frank Sinatra
surface form: Frank Sinatra version

Fred Astaire original film version
includedInRepertoireOf jazz instrumentalists
jazz vocalists
introducedBy Fred Astaire
introducedInFilm Shall We Dance
isFrequentlyPerformedAs jazz ballad
isStandardIn Great American Songbook
key B-flat major
language English
lyricist Ira Gershwin
lyricsFeature list of remembered details about a lover
lyricsRefrain "They can't take that away from me"
musicBy George Gershwin
notablePerformer Billie Holiday
Diana Krall
Ella Fitzgerald
Frank Sinatra
Fred Astaire
Louis Armstrong
Tony Bennett
performanceContext cabaret shows
concert halls
jazz clubs
publicationYear 1937
structure AABA
tempo medium-slow
usedIn film soundtracks
wordsBy Ira Gershwin

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Shall We Dance featuresSong They Can't Take That Away from Me
The Barkleys of Broadway featuresSong They Can't Take That Away from Me
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Ella and Louis hasTrack They Can't Take That Away from Me
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Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book includesWork They Can't Take That Away from Me
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Great American Songbook hasNotableSong They Can't Take That Away from Me
Ira Gershwin notableWork They Can't Take That Away from Me
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The Art of Elegance hasTrack They Can't Take That Away from Me
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Astaire–Rogers dance partnership hasNotableSong They Can't Take That Away from Me
this entity surface form: They Can’t Take That Away from Me
Gershwin estate hasRightsOver They Can't Take That Away from Me
It Had to Be You: The Great American Songbook containsSong They Can't Take That Away from Me