Beginner's Luck

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(I've Got) Beginner's Luck is a pop song written by George Gershwin (music) and Ira Gershwin and released in 1937.

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George Gershwin, 1937

The Gerswhin brothers wrote (I've Got) Beginner's Luck for the music film Tanz mit mir (1937), in which it was introduced by Fred Astaire (turned to Ginger Rogers ). The song is "fascinating in its use of counterpoints , motifs and phrase structures." The song begins with the lines:

I've got beginner's luck,
The first time that I'm in love
I'm in love with you.

First recordings and later cover versions

The musicians who covered the song from 1937 onwards included Tommy Dorsey (Victor, with Edythe Wright ), Dick McDonough (ARC; with Barry McKinley, vocals), Artie Shaw , Abe Lyman (Decca 1225, with Rose Blane, vocals), Roy Fox and his Orchestra and Seger Ellis in the United States and George Scott-Wood in the United Kingdom. The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 22 (as of 2016) cover versions in the field of jazz , including a. by Billy Butterfield , Bobby Short , Chris Connor , Ella Fitzgerald ( Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook ), Christy Doran , Diane Schuur and Christine Reisner.

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b Michael Lasser: America's Songs II: Songs from the 1890s to the Post-War Years . 2014, p. 169
  2. ↑ Wayne Schneider (Ed.) The Gershwin Style: New Looks at the Music of George Gershwin . New York, Oxford 1998, p. 67
  3. ↑ a b Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online)