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Oh, Lady Be Good!

George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin

Style
Jazz
Tradition
Jazz standard
Form
AABA, 32 bars
Key
G
Level
4
Played on
Voice

In the public domain. Source

History

Walter Catlett introduced it in Lady, Be Good!, the 1924 Gershwin musical that starred Fred and Adele Astaire.

Jones-Smith Incorporated, a small group with Lester Young and Count Basie, recorded it on October 9, 1936, for Vocalion. Ella Fitzgerald's 1947 scat version was a hit.