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Bess, You Is My Woman Now (1935)

Origin and Chart Information
Rank 539
Music George Gershwin
Lyrics Ira Gershwin
DuBose Heyward

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Year Rank Title
1930 1 Body and Soul
1939 2 All the Things You Are
1935 3 Summertime
1944 4 'Round Midnight
1935 5 I Can't Get Started (with You)
1937 6 My Funny Valentine
1942 7 Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be)
1930 8 What Is This Thing Called Love?
1933 9 Yesterdays
1946 10 Stella by Starlight

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George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward

Year Rank Title
1935 270 I Loves You Porgy
1935 539 Bess, You Is My Woman Now

Reading and Research
Additional information for "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" may be found in:

Wayne Schneider
The Gershwin Style: New Looks at the Music of George Gershwin
Oxford University Press
Hardcover: 290 pages
1 paragraph including the following types of information: music analysis.

Thomas S. Hischak
The American Musical Theatre Song Encyclopedia
Greenwood Press
Hardcover: 568 pages
1 paragraph including the following types of information: summary, lyric analysis and music analysis.

Philip Furia
Ira Gershwin: The Art of the Lyricist
Oxford University Press; Reprint edition
Paperback: 308 pages
1 page including the following types of information: lyric analysis.

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