The Man I Love (song)
"The Man I Love" is a popular standard with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by his brother Ira. Part of the 1924 score for the Gershwin musical comedy Lady, Be Good, the song was deleted from that show and put into the Gershwins' 1927 government satire Strike Up the Band, which closed out-of-town. It was considered for, then rejected from, the 1928 Ziegfeld hit Rosalie.
Popular recordings in 1928 were by Marion Harris; Sophie Tucker; Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra ; and by Fred Rich & His Orchestra. As with many standards of the era, it has become more famous as an independent popular song than as one from a Broadway musical.
The song was included in the 2015 Broadway musical An American in Paris based on the six-time Academy Award-winning Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron film, An American in Paris that was released in 1951.Other versions
- Paul Whiteman with Frankie Trumbauer – 1928
- Benny Goodman – recorded for Victor on July 30, 1937
- Benny Goodman with Teddy Wilson, Lionel Hampton, Gene Krupa – Carnegie Hall, 1938
- Artie Shaw & His Orchestra –,, and a recording for Columbia in 1949
- Billie Holiday with Lester Young – 1939
- Dorothy Lamour – recorded for Bluebird on April 26, 1939
- Billie Holiday – recorded for Conqueror on December 13, 1939,
- Lena Horne – recorded for Victor on December 15, 1941,, and Lena Horne at the Sands
- Coleman Hawkins – 1943
- Lester Young with Nat King Cole and Buddy Rich – 1946
- Sarah Vaughan – recorded for MGM in 1948
- Art Tatum – Piano Starts Here
- Miles Davis with Thelonious Monk and Milt Jackson – Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants
- Art Pepper with Red Garland – Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section
- Mary Lou Williams – Live at the Cookery
