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"Eclectic but not bizarre"
They Can't Take That Away from Me
Concert 7
CONCERT INTRODUCTION
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Kathy Strom 2018
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Good Afternoon!
“They Can't Take That Away from Me" is a 1937 popular song with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. Introduced by Fred Astaire in the 1937 film Shall We Dance, it is performed by Astaire on the lonely foggy deck of a ferry from New Jersey to Manhattan…sung to Ginger Rogers, who remains silent listening throughout. No dance sequence follows, not typical for Astaire-Rogers numbers. The basic meaning of the song? Even if lovers part, the memories cannot be taken away, and so it is a song of mixed joy and sadness.
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