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Nice Work If You Can Get It

 

Written: 1937

Music by: George Gershwin

Words by: Ira Gershwin

Written for: A Damsel in Distress
(movie, 1937)
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Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee

performing

"Nice Work If You Can Get It"

Frank Sinatra TV show, 1962

 

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About the Movie Damsel in Distress and the Origin of the Song

Other songs written for title currently included in the Cafe Songbook Catalog of The Great American Songbook:

1. A Foggy Day

2. Things Are Looking Up

 

For a complete listing of songs used in this movie, see IMDB soundtracks.

 



Fred Astaire dancing and drumming to "Nice Work If You Can Get It" in Damsel in Distress, 1937, the movie the song was written for

 

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Credits

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The Cafe Songbook
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Selected Recordings of

"Nice Work If You Can Get It"


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1937
Fred Astaire
with the Ray Noble Orchestra
album: 'S Wonderful The Music of George Gershwin


same track as on album referenced above

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