• Date: 1924
• Main Performer: George Gershwin
• Genre: Music Theater
• Period: Modern (1870-)

Review

The Gershwin brothers' first musical together, Oh, Lady Be Good, from 1924 starred the brother and sister singing and dancing team Adele and Fred Astaire playing a brother and sister dancing team. The show's title song, however, was not sung by either of the Astaires but by the comic lead as an attempt to persuade the sister to impersonate a Mexican woman in order to collect 100,000 dollars so that she can stop her brother from marrying the rich woman he loves but of whom he believes he's unworthy. The whole plot's like that, but it doesn't really matter: Oh, Lady Be Good, with Ira's lyrics rhyming "babe in the woods" with "lady be good" and George's swooning melody and lush harmonies, took on a life of its own and the song became a standard before the show closed. ~ All Music Guide

Albums with Complete Performances of the Work

Title	Date
Piano Favourites	2004
Tomorrow: The Best of Broadway	2002
Après le Plié: Music for Ballet Class
George Gershwin - The One And Only	1994
The George Gershwin Songbook	1998
Unforgettable Classics: Grappelli	1998
Fascinating Rhythm: The Complete Music for Solo Piano by George Gershwin	1999
Some Enchanted Evening	1996
New Art Saxophone Quartet	1999
Gershwin: The Art of Transcription
Syncopated Sensations	2000
Jealousy: Hits of the Thirties
Frederick Fennell Conducts Cole Porter & George Gershwin	1993
Feyer Plays Gershwin	1991
G. Gershwin
Gershwin Gold
George Gershwin: Favorites	2002
Summertime: Music for Clarinet Quartet	2005
Gershwin: Fascinating Rhythm	1998
Classical Treasures: The Great Gershwin	1997
George Gershwin Memorial Concert	1998
Gershwin Plays Rhapsody in Blue	2003
Gershwin: The Modern Romantic	1998
S'Wonderful	1997
Playful Virtuosity	2007
It's Wonderful: Tribute to George Gershwin	2001
I Got Rhythm: The Music of George Gershwin
S'Wonderful! The Songs of George & Ira Gershwin
Menuhin & Grappelli Play Gershwin, Berlin, Kern, etc.
He Loves and She Loves: Songs and Duets of George Gershwin
The Gershwin Songbook: Jazz Variations
The Yale University Music Library Benny Goodman, Vol.8
By George
Gershwin: Piano Works	1998
Gershwin Celebration	1993
Menuhin & Grappelli Play	1999
Panorama: George Gershwin	2000
InterClarinet	2000
S. Joplin; G. Gershwin; I. Berlin; P. Whiteman (Great Composers at the Keyboard)
American Musical Theatre, Vol.1: 1924-1935
On the Town
The Clarinet Quartet from the Belgian National Orchestra	1997
Gershwin Plays Rhapsody in Blue	1988
Gershwin Gold, Vol.1
Virtuoso Piano Music
Menuhin & Grappelli Play Gershwin
The Authentic George Gershwin, Vol. 1	1992
Gershwin Songbook for piano four hands
Au Temps du Boeuf sur le Toit: Jazz à Deux Pianos
George Gershwin: That Certain Feeling	2007
Gershwin: Fascinating Rhythm