"Will You Remember Me?": Song History, Commentary, Discography, Performances on Video

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Will You Remember Me?
Written: 1924	Music by: George Gershwin	Words by: Ira Gershwin	Written for: Lady, Be Good (but not used in show)
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"Will You Remember Me?"

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About the Show Lady, Be Good / Origins of the Song

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

1. Fascinating Rhythm

2. The Man I Love (written for but not used in show)

3. Oh, Lady Be Good

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

(Read our discussion on criteria (currently unavailable)for inclusion of songs in The Cafe Songbook Catalog of The Great American Songbook).

"Will You Remember Me" was dropped from Lady Be Good during rehearsals and replaced with "So Am I." The song was discovered in the George and Ira Gershwin Special Numbered Song File and copyrighted in 1987.

(source: Robert Kimball, Ed. The Complete Lyrics Of Ira Gershwin, New York: Knoph, 1993, p. 57, and paper bound edition, DaCapo Press, 1998.)

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"Will You Remember Me?"

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