Embraceable You

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"Embraceable You"
Song by Ginger Rogers
Written1928
Published1930 by Harms Inc.
Composer(s) George Gershwin
Lyricist(s) Ira Gershwin

"Embraceable You" is a jazz standard song with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. The song was written in 1928 for an unpublished operetta named East Is West. It was published in 1930 and included in that year's Broadway musical Girl Crazy , performed by Ginger Rogers in a song and dance routine choreographed by Fred Astaire.

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