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Shall We Dance?

Written: 1937

Music by: George Gershwin

Words by: Ira Gershwin

Written for: Shall We Dance
(movie)

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About the Movie Shall We Dance / Origins of the Song

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

1. Beginner's Luck

2. Let's Call the Whole Thing Off

3. Slap That Bass

4. They All Laughed

6. They Can't Take That Away from Me

 

For a complete listing of songs used in the original production of this movie, see IMDB Soundtrack.




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Astaire/Rogers Ultimate Collectors Edition
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The Ten Movies Co-starring
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers

1) Flying Down to Rio (1933); 2) The Gay Divorcee (1934); 3) Roberta (1935); 4) Top Hat (1935); 5) Follow the Fleet (1936); 6) Swing Time (1936); 7) Shall We Dance (1937); (8) Carefree (1938); (9) The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939); 10) The Barkleys of Broadway (1949).

 

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