C Instrument - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1191928 By Frank Sinatra. By George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin. Arranged by John Fries. 20th Century,Broadway,Jazz,Musical/Show,Standards. Lead Sheet / Fake Book. 1 pages. John Fries #791437. Published by John Fries (A0.1191928). TYPE JOHN FRIES IN THE SEARCH BAR TO SEE ALL I HAVE TO OFFER. Thanks, John. This song began life in 1930 as a nine-bar phrase with the working title There's No Stopping Me Now. Its title phrase Nice work if you can get it came from an English magazine. It was one of nine songs the Gershwin brothers wrote for the movie A Damsel in Distress in which it was performed by Fred Astaire with backing vocals by The Stafford Sisters. The song was published in 1937. The first jazz recording of the work was by Tommy Dorsey three weeks after the release of the film. The song was recorded by many jazz singers and adopted by bebop instrumentalists; Jerry Newman recorded pianist Thelonious Monk performing the tune in 1941 at Minton's Playhouse, a nightclub closely connected with early bebop, and he subsequently recorded it several times.
