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Verve Remixed - Carmen McRae - How Long Has This Been Going On (MJ Cole Remix)

#CarmenMcRae #VerveRemixed How Long Has This Been Going On? Written: 1927 Music by: George Gershwin Words by: Ira Gershwin Written for but cut from Funny Face (show, 1927) then introduced on Broadway in Rosalie (show, 1928) George and Ira Gershwin originally wrote "How Long Has This Been Going On?" for a scene in the 1927 musical at first titled Smarty, later, before its Broadway opening, changed to Funny Face. The early history of that show was a kind of "whose on first?" routine.  The show's initial out-of-town tryout was in Philadelphia where it was called Smarty. "How Long Has This Been Going On?" was introduced there on October 11, 1927, by Adele Astaire and Stanley Ridges.  Ira recalls in his memoir Lyrics on Several Occasions, that he and George wrote it (the words according to James Morris, having been written to fit the music) for a "situation" -- specifically, "a first kiss." Apparently, the song didn...