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Ella fitzgerald ella sings gershwin11/8/2023 Though these lips have made slips, it was never really serious The introductory verse as performed by Fitzgerald was:įive or ten, dollars then, I'd collect from all those yes-menĭon't be sad, I must add, that they meant no more than chess-men She reflects with "salty tears" about the differences between the two types of kisses. Sad to tell, it was hell, an inferno worse than Dante's." In the subsequent version of the lyrics as performed by Ella Fitzgerald ten years later, the lyrics of this introductory verse were changed to the melancholy reflections of a worker in evening "bazaars" reflecting on the differences between kisses for money and romantic kisses from someone with emotional ties, which had previously eluded her. The lyrics used as first released by Gershwin started with the introductory verse: "As a tot, when I trotted in little velvet panties, / I was kissed by my sisters, my cousins, and my aunties. Replaced by " He Loves and She Loves" in Funny Face, it was eventually introduced in the musical Rosalie (1928) by Bobbe Arnst as Mary O'Brien. A couple of weeks later on the road (either in Atlantic City or Washington) "How Long." was out, replaced by " He Loves and She Loves "”. Yours doesn't get you anywhere, so how about taking it out of the show?” Eventually the song was deleted as Ira Gershwin indicates, “Well, he had his wish. asking him to remove the song because “It doesn't mean anything” and because “Well, we've bought a song with the same title and we're about to publish it. History Īccording to Ira Gershwin in his book Lyrics on Several Occasions, after the premiere of Funny Face in Philadelphia he received a call from the then professional manager of Shapiro, Bernstein and Co. " How Long Has This Been Going On?" is a song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, for the musical Funny Face in 1927.
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