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Billie Holiday with Eddie Heywood and His Orchestra

Embraceable You

1944 · via George Gershwin

Billie Holiday with Eddie Heywood and His Orchestra’s 1944 recording of “Embraceable You” is the earliest release on file. George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin are credited as its writers. Also recorded by Frank Sinatra (released 1993), Sarah Vaughan (released 1970) and Dinah Washington (released 1951), among 1016 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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George wrote the music, but the words on "Embraceable You" came from Ira, his brother, and the two of them share the credit on half the songs in this bin. Billie Holiday had it on record before George's own cut; play hers first and follow Ira.

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Credited writers: George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1944.

Other recordings on file · first release year

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