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Charlie Parker

Embraceable You
1944 · via George Gershwin and 1 more
Charlie Parker – Embraceable You
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Billie Holiday got to "Embraceable You" first, and that's the version most people carry around. Put Charlie Parker's on next and listen to what happens when someone else picks up the same Gershwin tune.

Gershwin wrote the words, Billie Holiday got there first, and then Charlie Parker took the same song and made it his. Play them back to back and you'll hear how much room one tune can hold.

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Liner notes

Written by George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin.

First recorded by Billie Holiday with Eddie Heywood and His Orchestra in 1944.

Also recorded by Rita Reys (1975).

How you get here
Billie Holiday was first to record George Gershwin's "Embraceable You." Which of these artists also put their own recording of that same melody on tape?Charlie Parker
a knot from George Gershwin · next: Charlie Parker
Billie Holiday cut Ira Gershwin's "Embraceable You" first, backed by Eddie Heywood's orchestra. Which name on this list later made his own recording of it?Charlie Parker
a knot from Ira Gershwin · next: Charlie Parker
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