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Embraceable You

Embraceable You

1930 song by George and Ira Gershwin

This article is about the Gershwin popular song. For other uses, see Embraceable You (disambiguation).

"Embraceable You" is a jazz standard song with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. The song was written in 1928 for an unpublished operetta named East Is West. It was published in 1930 and included in that year's Broadway musical Girl Crazy, performed by Ginger Rogers in a song and dance routine choreographed by Fred Astaire.

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Billie Holiday's 1944 recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2005.[1]

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