The Man I Love (song)
"The Man I Love" is a popular standard  with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by his brother Ira. Part of the 1924 score for the Gershwin musical comedy Lady, Be Good, the song was deleted from that show and put into the Gershwins' 1927 government satire Strike Up the Band (where it appears as "The Man I Love" and "The Girl I Love"), which closed out-of-town. It was considered for, then rejected from, the 1928 Ziegfeld hit Rosalie. The song was used as the title of, and was prominently featured in, the 1947 film noir melodrama The Man I Love, starring Ida Lupino and Bruce Bennett. Covers 

Like many songs from George and Ira Gershwin, "The Man I Love" is considered part of the Great American Songbook. Composed in AABA form, it was covered on stage and on record by many artists. An early notable performance was by the Benny Goodman Quartet at the Goodman band's 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert (with Benny Goodman on clarinet; Gene Krupa on drums, Teddy Wilson on piano, and Lionel Hampton on vibraphone) - famed not only as part of that historic jazz concert but for being done by one of the first integrated groups of black and white musicians to perform in concert in the United States. In 1994 the song was recorded by Kate Bush for Larry Adler's The Glory of Gershwin tribute album; released as a single on 18 July 1994, it reached number 27 on the UK Singles Chart. Further reading
 Philip Furia, Ira Gershwin: The Art of the Lyricist Oxford University Press: Oxford 1996, 
 Ira Gershwin, Lyrics on Several Occasions Limelight Editions: New York City 1973. Ted Gioia, The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire Oxford University Press: Oxford  2012, 
 Alec Wilder, American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950 Oxford University Press: Oxford 1972,

See also
List of 1920s jazz standards

References

External links
 At Jazz Standards

1920s jazz standards
1924 songs
1928 singles
1994 singles
Bluebird Records singles
Kate Bush songs
Songs with lyrics by Ira Gershwin
Songs with music by George Gershwin