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| "'The Half of It, Dearie' Blues" | |
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| Song by Fred Astaire and Kathlene Martyn | |
| Published | December 1, 1924 Harms, Inc. [1] |
| Released | 1924 |
| Composer | George Gershwin |
| Lyricist | Ira Gershwin |
"'The Half of it, Dearie' Blues" is a song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It was introduced by Fred Astaire and Kathlene Martyn in the 1924 musical Lady be Good . [2]
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In his 1959 book Lyrics on Several Occasions , Ira Gershwin noted: "Some sort of grievance is featured in the musical-comedy adaptation of The Blues as evidence here in 'The Half of It, Dearie Blues' and in the [Jerome] Kern-[Anne] Caldwell 'Left All Alone Again Blues' [a] —but of course in such as these the lyric approach isn't attempting to plumb the melancholy depths of the real Blues." [3]
