109 Gershwin Tunes!!!
All Gershwin!
All The Right Changes! (Chord changes, that is!)
All the Verses Too!
It’s the Just Gershwin REAL Book!
Here are all the Gershwin BIG HITS along with the forgotten and rare gems that you’ll be absolutely thrilled to learn! The hits include, of course, such magnificent songs as Embraceable You… Somebody Loves Me…I Can’t Get Started…I Got Rhythm…Love Is Here To Stay…The Man I Love…Someone To Watch Over Me… as well as the great songs from “Porgy & Bess” Summertime, I Loves You Porgy, It Ain’t Necessarily So… just to name a sampling of their many hit songs. But you’ll also get those specialty and rare numbers you might only get to hear performed by cabaret performers. You’ll love making discoveries of such tunes and lyrics asand lots more. This REAL book is such REAL fun that you’ll have trouble tearing yourself away from your piano.
What is a REAL book…exactly?
To be honest, a REAL book is a FAKE book. This may sound like something the Mad Hatter might have said, but it’s sort of true. Except that a REAL book goes many levels beyond a FAKE book…
You see, a REAL book presents a nuts-and-bolts outline of each song: the melody (sometimes called the lead line), the chord symbols, and the lyrics, just as a FAKE book does. But a REAL book goes well beyond that. A REAL book gives you the best chord changes, suggested substitute chord changes, and filler or connecting chords, all of which you’ll often hear used by professionals. A REAL book is presented in workbook (hand-engraved) style with easy-to-read, large-print notes and chord symbols, just like the pros use. (In fact the pros are buying this book and as many REAL books as they can get their busy little hands on!)
But that’s not all…
This Just Gershwin REAL Book gives you lots more. The Gershwins, George and his brother Ira, wrote some of the best verses to their great songs you’ll ever hear. Ella Fitzgerald was one of those artists who latched on to these winning verses and made them all her own. Just listen to her collection, The Gershwin Songbook. In this book you get each and every verse for each song that had one written. You also get an overview of chord theory… plus primers on chord substitution and chord voicings…a discography of the major recordings of each song…and the publishers, our friends at Warner Bros. Publications, provide a wonderful guide to using this treasured book.
And last but not least, the book is bound with a plastic comb binding which lies perfectly flat on any music stand just as any FAKE or REAL book should!
CONTENTS
Aren't You Kind of Glad We Did
Ask Me Again
Because, Because
(I've Got) Beginner's Luck
Bess, You is My Woman
Bidin' My Time
Blah, Blah, Blah
Blue, Blue, Blue
Boy Wanted
Boy, What Love Has Done For Me
But Not For Me
By Strauss
Changing My Tune
Cheerful Little Earful
Clap Yo' Hands
Could You Use Me?
Dance Alone With You
Delishious
Do It Again
Do, Do, Do
Drifting Along With the Tide
Embraceable You
Fascinatin' Rhythm
Feeling I'm Falling
Feeling Sentimental
A Foggy Day
For You, For Me, For Evermore
Funny Face
The Half of It, Dearie, Blues
Hang On To Me
He Loves and She Loves
High Hat
Hi-Ho
Home Blues (An American In Paris, Blues Theme)
How Long Has This Been Going On
I Can't Be Bothered Now
I Can't Get Started
I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'
I Got Rhythm
I Loves You Porgy
I Was Doing Alright
I Won't Say I Will, But I Won't Say I Won't
I'd Rather Charleston
I'll Build A Stairway To Paradise
I've Got A Crush On You
Isn't It A Pity
It Ain't Necessarily So
Just Another Rhumba
Kickin' The Clouds Away
K-R-A-Z-Y For You
Let 'Em Eat Cake
Let's Call The Whole Thing Off
Let's Kiss And Make Up
Little Jazz Bird
Liza
Long Ago and Far Away
Looking For A Boy
The Lorelei
Love Is Here To Stay
Love Is Sweeping the Country
Love Walked In
Luckiest Man in The World
The Man I Love
The Man That Got Away
Maybe
Mine
My Fair Lady
My Man's Gone Now
My One and Only
My Ship
Nice Work If You Can Get It
Nobody By You
Of Thee I Sing (Baby)
Oh Gee! Oh Joy!
Oh, Lady Be Good
Oh, So Nice
On And On And On
The Real American Folk Song (Is A Rag)
Rhapsody In Blue (Theme)
'S Wonderful
Sam And Delilah
Shall We Dance?
Slap That Bass
So Am I
Somebody From Somewhere
Somebody Loves Me
Someone
Someone To Watch Over Me
Soon
Stiff Upper Lip
Strike Up the Band
Summertime
Swanee
Sweet and Low-Down
Tell Me More
That Certain Feeling
There's a Boat Dat's Leaving Soon For New York
They All Laughed
They Can't Take That Away From Me
Things Are Looking Up
Treat Me Rough
What Causes That?
Where You Go, I Go
Who Cares?
A Woman Is A Sometime Thing
The World Is Mine
Yankee Doodle Rhythm
You've Got What Gets Me
