The Man I Love (song)

"The Man I Love" is a popular standard, with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by his brother Ira. Originally part of the 1924 score for the Gershwin government satire Lady, Be Good as "The Girl I Love", the song was deleted from the show as well as from both the 1927 anti-war satire Strike Up the Band (where it first appeared as "The Man I Love") and 1928 Ziegfeld hit Rosalie after tryouts. As with many standards of the era, it has become more famous as an independent popular song than as one from a Broadway musical.

Recorded versions

 * Cher
 * Kate Bush
 * Rita Coolidge
 * Miles Davis and The Modern Jazz Giants
 * Bill Evans/Bob Brookmeyer on their album The Ivory Hunters
 * Vaughn De Leath with Paul Whiteman's Concert Orchestra for Columbia.[]
 * Judy Garland on a 1944 radio broadcast
 * Ella Fitzgerald Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook (1959)
 * Valeria Golino and Rachel Sweet sung it in the movie Hot Shots!
 * Billie Holiday
 * Lena Horne
 * Etta James - "Mystery Lady: Songs of Billie Holiday" (1994)
 * Stan Kenton - Stan Kenton On AFRS (1944-1945)
 * Frances Langford
 * Ledisi
 * Peggy Lee
 * Ivri Lider for the soundtrack of The Bubble
 * Patti LuPone on Lady With the Torch
 * Liza Minnelli
 * Helen Morgan
 * Hazel O'Connor
 * Anita O'Day - An Evening with Anita O'Day (1956)
 * Diana Ross
 * Diane Schuur
 * Barbra Streisand
 * Donna Summer
 * Sophie Tucker 1928
 * Sarah Vaughan
 * Dinah Washington
 * Lee Adam Wilshier on Lover Man (2008).
 * Hindi Zahra
 * Caetano Veloso
 * Tony Bennett & Sheryl Crow
 * Helen Forrest
 * The Devics