"Embraceable You" is a jazz song composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin. The song was created in 1928 for an unpublished musical play called East Is West. It was published in 1930 and later included in the Broadway show Girl Crazy that same year. In the show, Ginger Rogers performed the song in a dance routine choreographed by Fred Astaire.
Billie Holiday's 1944 recording of the song was added to the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2005.
Other versions
- Irene Cara in the movie City Heat
- Nat King Cole – 1943
- Bing Crosby – recorded on November 12, 1947; included in the album Bing Crosby Sings Songs by George Gershwin
- Ella Fitzgerald – Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook (1959)
- Jane Froman – With a Song in My Heart
- Judy Garland – Girl Crazy, film (1943)
- Frank Sinatra – 1944 for Columbia Records, 1960 for Capitol Records on the album Nice 'n' Easy
- Erroll Garner
- Herbie Hancock – Gershwin's World (1998)
- Billie Holiday – 1944
- Billie Holiday – Body and Soul (1957)
- Chet Baker – Embraceable You (album) (1957)
- Charlie Parker – Cool Bird (1947)
- Hazel Scott – 1942
- Idina Menzel – 2010
- Ornette Coleman – This Is Our Music (1961)
- Harve Presnell – When the Boys Meet the Girls (1965)
- Martin Taylor – Love Songs (2019)
- Brent Spiner – Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back (1991)
- Joe Lovano – 52nd Street Themes (2000)
- Geri Allen – Timeless Portraits and Dreams (2006)
- Johnny Mathis – Open Fire, Two Guitars (1959)
- Cliff Richard – Cliff Sings (1959)