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Thank you for your patience. Strike Up the Band Written: 1927, 1929 Music by: Words by: Written for: (show, 1927, 1929, 1930) Page Menu On the Main Stage at Cafe Songbook Two Performances of 'Strike Up the Band' (just about a half century apart) Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Orchestra, Chorus and Dancers performing 'Strike Up the Band' (1940) in the 1940 movie Strike Up the Band. The lyrics to 'Strike Up the Band' were altered by Ira Gershwin several times to please the powers that be in Hollywood. They used some of Ira's words and some of their own.

George Gershwin/ Strike Up The Band Ira Gershwin. Matt Smalligan, drums arr. Sammy Nestico Sammy Nestico Front Burner Soloists. UNIVERSITY JAZZ LAB BAND. Strike up the Band (1959) by Ira & George Gershwin Arranged by Sammy Nestico Piece Duration: ~3:34 Presentation Duration: 20-25 Minutes Jazz Ensemble Version Strike Up the Band (1927) was originally a satire musical production written by George and Ira Gershwin.

Most of the music is George's, but the plot of the movie has nothing to do with the original stage production in any of its forms; still, the Hollywood showmanship and the talent of the stars makes it worth a look and listen. George himself never got a chance to experience it, having died three years before its release. Daytek Manual.

Barney Kessel and Tal Farlow performing 'Strike Up the Band' (1988) with Joe Byrd, Bass and Chuck Redd, drums at ZDF Jazz Club, Leonberg, Germany, 1988. As far as we know, this duet has not been recorded. Click the links below for individual recordings of the song by Kessel (iTunes) and Farlow (Amazon). More Performances of 'Strike Up the Band'in the Cafe Songbook (Video ) (Please complete or pause one video before starting another.) Cafe Songbook Reading Room 'Strike Up the Band' About the Show / Origins of the Song Howard Pollack Berkeley: Univ. Of California Press 2006 Edward Jablonski New York: Doubleday, 1987 (paper bound edition shown) Ira Gershwin,, New York: Limelight Editions, 1997 (originally published by Knoph, 1959) Other songs written for Strike Up the Band currently included in the Cafe Songbook: 1. (first used in this show, but not written for it) For a complete listing of songs used in the original Broadway production of Strike Up the Band, see IBDB song list. Walter Rimler,, Popular Culture Ink, 1991 According to George Gershwin biographer Howard Pollack (pp.

396-397), the idea for the show Strike Up the Band came about when producer Edgar Selwyn heard, in 1926, that George S. Kaufman was at work on an anti-war satire and wanted the Gershwins to put it to music: 'We can all be grateful to Edgar Selwyn,' remarked Morrie Ryskind, for having the foresight to match their [The Gershwins'] genius with that of George Kaufman's.' The Gershwins were delighted at the prospect of working with Kaufman whom they considered 'the funniest and most intelligent playwright in America'. Keil Mdk Arm Crack Gta here. ' And, as it turned out, Ryskind, himself an anti-war type during his younger years, wound up rewriting Kaufman's after the 1927 production failed even to make it as far as Broadway, closing in Philadelphia after only two weeks.