Love Is Here To Stay
Written by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, the song Love Is Here to Stay is a jazz standard from the 1938 movie The Goldwyn Follies, in which it is performed by Kenny Baker. It is used as as the main theme in the 1951 movie An American in Paris, and is also used in the 1979 musical The 1940's Radio Hour.
The song has been recorded by numerous artists, including Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, Carmen McRae, Billie Holiday, Oscar Peterson, Ray Charles, and Barry Manilow.
George Gershwin (1898 - 1937) was an American composer. He combined jazz and classical styles to write popular songs, classical music, and music for theater and films. His talented brother Ira was often his lyricist.
George Gershwin's compositions have been used in numerous films and on television, and many have become jazz standards. His Porgy and Bess (1935) is widely regarded as the most important American opera of the twentieth century.
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