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My Ship

Written: 1941

Music by: Kurt Weill

Words by: Ira Gershwin

Written for: Lady in the Dark
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About the show and Movie Lady in the Dark / Origins of the Song

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

1. This Is New

 

For a complete listing of songs used in the original production of this show, see IBDB song list.

 

For a complete listing of songs used in the movie Lady in the Dark, see IMDB soundtracks.

book cover: Ronald Sanders, "The Days Grow Short: The Life and Music of Kurt Weill"
Ronald Sanders,
The Days Grow Short: The Life and Music of
Kurt Weill,
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980 (paperback Ed. Silman-James Press, September 1991)

The 1944 movie Lady in the Dark, based on the Broadway show, was released in February, 1944, with very little of Weill's score or Gershwin's words left in tact. The only song included in something like its entirety was "The Saga of Jenny." Snatches of "My Ship" "hummed by Ginger Rodgers in great perterbation" are heard throughout the film, while the other song from the show included in the Cafe Songbook Catalog of The Great American Songbook, "This Is New," was reduced even moreso, only being played at one point by a night club band (Sanders, Weill, pp. 332-33, hard cover ED.).

 

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