SONG OF THE DAY

“But Not For Me” by Joey De Francesco fea­tur­ing Joe Doggs (Falling In Love Again, Con­cord Records, 2003). Writ­ten by George and Ira Gershwin.

INTERESTING FACTS (a la wikipedia)

- Joe Doggs = Joe Pesci

- The Gersh­wins wrote this song for their musi­cal Girl Crazy (1930) and intro­duced in the orig­i­nal pro­duc­tion by Gin­ger Rogers. It is also in the 1992 musi­cal based on Girl Crazy, Crazy for You.

- It is fea­tured in the 1979 Woody Allen movie Man­hat­tan and in the open­ing scene of the 1998 Ben­nett Miller doc­u­men­tary The Cruise.

- Other notable cov­ers have been recorded by: Bobby Darin, Chet Baker, Carol Bur­nett (on “The Mup­pet Show”), John Coltrane, Elvis Costello, Sammy Davis Jr., Ella Fitzger­ald , Judy Gar­land, Ahmad Jamal (on the album “Ahmad Jamal At the Per­sh­ing — But Not for Me”), Elton John (on the Four Wed­dings and a Funeral sound­track), Harry Con­nick, Jr. (on the When Harry Met Sally… sound­track), Frank Sina­tra, Rod Stew­art (on the album Star­dust: The Great Amer­i­can Song­book Vol­ume III), Dinah Wash­ing­ton, Miles Davis (on the album Bags’ Groove), and Ron­nie Milsap.