This week we have a nice lot of vintage sheet music booklets up for auction. Being a record store we're no experts on sheet music. But these were too nice to pass up. *** We have many more pieces of sheet music (from 1900 to the 70s) coming this week, and the weeks following. Check back later *** We gladly combine orders Here's a Rare 1937 vintage 4 page UK print for the R.K.O. Radio Picture film song Nice Work If You Can Get It from the film: A Damsel In Distress (starring Fred Astaire, Joan Fontaine, George Burns and Gracie Allen) Music by: George Gershwin Words by: Ira Gershwin Condition: the booklet is in a great condition for it 's age. very nice and crisp, some mild wrinkling, small pencil mark in front low-right corner and light wear. Lovely piece info: A Damsel in Distress is a 1937 English-themed Hollywood musical comedy film starring Fred Astaire, Joan Fontaine, George Burns, and Gracie Allen. With a screenplay by P. G. Wodehouse, loosely based on his novel of the same name, music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin, it is directed by George Stevens. It is the second (and last) Astaire musical directed by Stevens; the first was Swing Time. Cast Fred Astaire as Jerry George Burns as George Gracie Allen as Gracie Joan Fontaine as Lady Alyce Reginald Gardiner as Keggs Ray Noble as Reggie Constance Collier as Lady Caroline Montagu Love as Lord Marshmorton Harry Watson as Albert Jan Duggan as Miss Ruggles song info: "Nice Work If You Can Get It" is a popular song and jazz standard composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It began life in 1930 as a nine-bar phrase with the working title "There's No Stopping Me Now". Its title phrase "Nice work if you can get it" came from an English magazine. It was one of nine songs George Gershwin wrote for the movie A Damsel in Distress in which it was performed by Fred Astaire with backing vocals by The Stafford Sisters. The song was published in 1937. The first jazz recording of the work was by Tommy Dorsey three weeks after the release of the film. Early chart versions were by Shep Fields, Teddy Wilson with Billie Holiday, Fred Astaire, Maxine Sullivan, and The Andrews Sisters. The song was recorded by many jazz singers and adopted by bebop instrumentalists; Jerry Newman recorded pianist Thelonious Monk performing the tune in 1941 at Minton's Playhouse, a nightclub closely connected with early bebop, and he subsequently recorded it several times. Other jazz pianists who have recorded the tune include Art Tatum in 1949, Erroll Garner in 1968, and Jessica Williams in 1992. Some other recordings: Tommy Dorsey – 1937 Ella Fitzgerald with Andre Previn – Nice Work If You Can Get It, 1983 Erroll Garner – Erroll Garner Plays Gershwin and Kern, 1968 Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson – 1937 Thelonious Monk – 1941, 1947 Frank Sinatra – Sinatra-Basie: An Historic Musical First (1962) Art Tatum – 1949 Mel Tormé – Mel Tormé Sings Fred Astaire (1956) Shipping costs: Worldwide shipping: $11.50 - for 1 to maybe 8 booklets (depending on the thickness) HOLLYWOOD, film classic, movie collectable, 1940s hollywood memorabilia, jazz |