Originally posted in 2012 Today is the birthday of the great George Gershwin (1898-1937). Surprisingly, Gershwin’s own career bypassed vaudeville (our usual subject on this blog) almost entirely, going from being a teenage song plugger to composing songs for Broadway revues (although there were occasions when he accompanied Nora Bayes and Louise Dresser). His first hit was “Swannee” [……
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:28AM on September 26, 2013