In the mid 20th century, brothers George and ira Gershwin produced many of the songs that have lived in America's heart for decades.
With George's melodies and Ira's lyrics, tunes like "Someone to Watch Over Me," "Embraceable You," and "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" have endured for decades.
In 1977, a young cabaret singer named Michael Feinstein went to work as Ira Gershwin's personal archivist. 
For the next six years, until Gershwin's death, feinstein worked closely with him, gathering insight, inspiration, and some great stories about Gershwin and his contemporaries like Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, and Irving Caesar, among others.
In 1995 feinstein wrote a memoir, called Nice Work if You Can Gt It. And that's when I met him.

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