Classical Music | Piano Music

Recorded on 07/07/2012, uploaded on 07/15/2012

Musician's or Publisher's Notes

As usual, George Gershwin wrote the melody first and gave it to Ira to set, but Ira found it an unusually hard melody to create lyrics for. He experimented for two weeks with the rhyme scheme he felt the music called for, sets of triple rhymes, but found that the heavy rhyming "seemed at best to give a pleasant and jingly Mother Goose quality to a tune which should throw its weight around more." Finally he began to experiment with leaving most of the lines unrhymed. "This approach felt stronger," he wrote, "and I finally arrived at the present refrain, with only 'more-door' and 'mind him-find him' the rhymes." He added that this approach "was a bit daring for me who usually depended on rhyme insurance."

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Got_Rhythm