Level: 2/3
Tuning: Standard

This beautiful romantic ballad, featured in the1938 film "The Goldwyn Follies," is the last song Gershwin composed. Besides its coverage by countless singers, it has been in over a dozen movies, notably Gene Kelly's "An American In Paris." The intro/verse (included in this key-of-C arrangement) was unfinished when Gershwin died, but it was reconstructed by Vernon Duke, with help from Gershwin's friend Oscar Levant, who remembered hearing Gershwin play his initial ideas for the verse. Ira Gershwin's lyrics, written after George died, were a tribute to his brother. And George's music certainly is "here to stay." The chorus is mostly circle-of-fifths movement. As in all chord-melody arrangements, it's helpful to strum through the chords (as presented in the vocal accompaniment) and get familiar with them before tackling the instrumental version of the tune.