But Not for Me (song)
"But Not for Me" is a popular song, composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin.
It was written for their musical Girl Crazy (1930) and introduced in the original production by Ginger Rogers. It is also in the 1992 musical based on Girl Crazy, Crazy for You.
In 1959 Ella Fitzgerald included a version of the song on her landmark album Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook. The rendition won the 1960 Grammy Award for Best Female Vocal Performance.
Singer Ketty Lester remade "But Not for Me" with a gospel arrangement which reached #10 on the US Adult Contemporary chart, #41 the Billboard Top 40, and #45 in the UK in 1962.[1]
In 2012, it was performed by Kelli O'Hara (Billie Bendix) in Act 2, Scene 1 of Joe Pietro's Broadway musical Nice Work If You Can Get It, which featured the music of George and Ira Gershwin.
Film appearances
- 1943 Girl Crazy – sung by Judy Garland
- 1959 But Not for Me – performed by Ella Fitzgerald
- 1965 When the Boys Meet the Girls – sung by Connie Francis and Harve Presnell
- 1979 Manhattan – played by the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
- 1989 When Harry Met Sally... performed by Harry Connick Jr.
- 1994 Four Weddings and a Funeral – performed by Elton John
- 1998 The Cruise – performed by Timothy Levitch
- 2012 Sakamichi no Apollon (Kids on the Slope) anime
Notable recordings
- Helen Forrest with Harry James (Columbia recorded December 30, 1941) - this version reached No. 12 in the Billboard charts in 1942.[2]
- Bing Crosby recorded July 9, 1942.[3] He also recorded the song in 1954[4] for use on his radio show and it was subsequently included in the box set The Bing Crosby CBS Radio Recordings (1954-56) issued by Mosaic in 2009.[5]
- Ella Fitzgerald on the albums Ella Sings Gershwin (1950)
- Chet Baker on the album Chet Baker Sings (1954)
- Miles Davis on the album Bags' Groove (1954 - instrumental version)
- Modern Jazz Quartet on the album Django (1956)
- Rita Reys on the album The Cool Voice of Rita Reys (1956)
- Joni James on the album In the Still of the Night (1956)
- Doris Day on the album Day by Day (1956)
- Red Garland on the Red Garland's Piano (1956)
- Dinah Washington on the album The Swingin' Miss "D" (1957)
- Sonny Stitt on the album 37 Minutes and 48 Seconds with Sonny Stitt (1957)
- Polly Bergen on The Polly Bergen Show (1957)[6]
- Sarah Vaughan on the album Sarah Vaughan Sings Broadway: Great Songs from Hit Shows (1958)
- Ahmad Jamal on the album At the Pershing: But Not for Me (1958)
- Ella Fitzgerald on Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook (1959)
- Julie London - Around Midnight (1960)
- Les McCann on the album Les McCann Ltd. Plays the Shout (1960)
- John Coltrane on the album My Favorite Things (1961)
- Stanley Turrentine on the album Up at "Minton's" (1961)
- Gene Ammons on the album Just Jug (1962) aka Live in Chicago CD bonus track
- Johnny Lytle on the album Nice and Easy (1962)
- Georgia Brown on the album Georgia Brown Sings Gershwin (1963)
- Rosemary Clooney on the album Rosemary Clooney Sings the Lyrics of Ira Gershwin (1979)
- Frank Sinatra on the album Trilogy: Past Present Future (1980)
- Carol Burnett on The Muppet Show in 1980[7]
- Ella Fitzgerald on Nice Work If You Can Get It (1983)
- Bobby Watson on the album Advance (1984)
- Linda Ronstadt on the album For Sentimental Reasons (1986)
- Carol Sloane with Tommy Flanagan, piano, George Mraz, bass, and Al Foster, drums on the album But Not For Me (1987)
- Paul Motian with Joe Lovano on the album On Broadway Volume 2 (1989)
- Jodi Benson in the original cast recording of Crazy for You (1992)
- Elton John on the Four Weddings and a Funeral soundtrack (1994)
- Elvis Costello on the album The Glory of Gershwin (1994)
- John Pizzarelli, The John Pizzarelli Trio After Hours (1996)
- Chris Connor on the album Masters of Jazz Vol. 5 Female Vocal Classics (1996)
- Natalie Merchant on the album Red Hot + Rhapsody (1998)
- Lisa Ekdahl on the album Heaven, Earth And Beyond (2002)
- The Idea of North on the album Here & Now (2003)
- Ronnie Milsap on the album Just for a Thrill (2004)
- Chelsea Krombach on the album Profile (2004)
- Rod Stewart on the album Stardust: The Great American Songbook Volume III (2004)
- Eliane Elias on the album Something for You: Eliane Elias Sings & Plays Bill Evans (2008)
- Joshua Bell in concert in London, London Symphony Orchestra, John Williams conducting (March 2, 2009 at the Barbican Center, London, England)
- Diana Krall on the TV-series Spectacle: Elvis Costello with... in 2009
- Kelli O'Hara on the album Nice Work If You Can Get It (2012)
- Jermaine Jackson on the album I Wish You L.O.V.E. Jazz standards (2012)
- Masayoshi Furukawa with Takashi Matsunaga, piano, Shun Ishikawa, drums, Keisuke Torikoshi, bass, and Shinpei Ruike, trumpet, on the Kids on the Slope soundtrack. Arrangement by Yoko Kanno (2012)
- Uri Caine on the album Rhapsody in Blue (2013)
- Tony Bennett and Diana Krall on the album Love Is Here to Stay (2018)
See also
References
- ↑ Ketty Lester, "But Not For Me" Chart Positions Retrieved April 20, 2012.
- ↑ Whitburn, Joel (1986). Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954. Wisconsin, USA: Record Research Inc. p. 226. ISBN 0-89820-083-0.
- ↑ "A Bing Crosby Discography". BING magazine. International Club Crosby. Retrieved September 9, 2017.
- ↑ "A Bing Crosby Discography". BING magazine. International Club Crosby. Retrieved November 29, 2017.
- ↑ "allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved November 29, 2017.
- ↑ "The Polly Bergen Show". Classic Television Archives. Retrieved January 9, 2011.
- ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0653228/?ref_=_11
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