began as the great musical theatre playwright Guy Bolton’s effort to create a “book show” for the sparkling young English actress Gertrude Lawrence. Vocal Popular. [9] "Someone to Watch Over Me" was notably covered by Ella Fitzgerald (1951), Chet Baker (1955), Sarah Vaughan (1957), Dakota Staton (1960), Blossom Dearie (1961), Barbra Streisand (1965), Ray Charles (1969), Willie Nelson (1978), Rickie Lee Jones (2000), Elton John (2002) and Amy Winehouse (2008). | Buying sheet music and downloads from Schott Music 0.0/10 Rex Reed Recalls Kay Thompson. Overture 2. More than 1,800 recordings of the song have been published, almost all of them performed in the slow ballad style.[9]. A. scenery B. the orchestra in a pit C. an African-American cast D. a solo soprano … 0.0/10 The song was also used prominently in the film Mr. Holland's Opus (1995) with vocals by Jean Louisa Kelly in the film and Julia Fordham on the film's soundtrack. Broadway musical. (from LADY, BE GOOD!) (which included "Someone to Watch Over Me") the year after that. 2 (-) - V/N/V - 1061×⇩ - MP3 - Guifré, Someone to Watch over Me (Fox-trot) (EU) Rights and Access Note. However, it is in the public domain in Canada (where IMSLP is hosted), the EU, and in those countries where the copyright term is life+70 years or less. MARY KAY BEALL (b. This 1920s song article is a stub. 6 In less than three weeks in 1924 he composed "Rhapsody in Blue," originally for Paul Whiteman's relatively small swing band and later orchestrated by Ferde Grofé. 13 scores found for "George Gershwin Oh, Kay!" while Ira Gershwin was hospitalized for six weeks for a ruptured appendix, claimed he helped write the lyrics to "Someone to Watch Over Me". degree from Ohio Wesleyan University, an M.A. *#179757 - 2.96MB - 3:09 -  8 • Switch back to classic skin, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0, http://imslp.org/index.php?title=Oh,_Kay!_(Gershwin,_George)&oldid=2842328, Works first published in the 20th century, Pages with commercial recordings (Naxos collection), Pages with commercial recordings (BnF collection), Items with text under copyright in Canada, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. 6 Oh, Kay! Complete soundtrack list, synopsys, video, plot review, cast for Oh, Kay! [10] Nelson Riddle arranged two lush orchestral versions, one backing Keely Smith in 1959 on Swingin' Pretty, and the other for Linda Ronstadt in 1983 on What's New – the latter album winning a Grammy Award. It is based on the play La Présidente by Maurice Hennequin and Pierre Veber. This is the fifth in a series of studio cast recordings of Gershwin musicals … Gershwin, George Oh, Kay! 4 No. George Gershwin, Composer Howard Dietz, Lyricist Gershwin, Lyricist. 8 The plot revolves around the adventures of the Duke of Durham and his sister, Lady Kay, English bootleggers in Prohibition Era America. (-) - !N/22/!N - 4809×⇩ - NeptuneVII, PDF typeset by arranger Howard Dietz, who was involved in composing other songs in Oh Kay! The successful musical ran for more than 200 performances in New York and … Jimmy (Joel Sandel) falls for a beautiful bootlegger, Kay (Doris Davis), in the first production of Main Street Theater's 1999 - 2000 Humphreys Concert Musicals Series, OH KAY! 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