My Third Annual Hat Video

Ella Fitzgerald sings They Can't Take That Away From Me.
"They Can't Take That Away from Me" is a 1937 song written by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin and introduced by Fred Astaire in the 1937 film Shall We Dance.
The song is performed by Astaire on the foggy deck of the ferry from New Jersey to Manhattan. It is sung to Ginger Rogers, who remains silent listening throughout. No dance sequence follows, which was unusual for the Astaire-Rogers numbers. Astaire and Rogers did dance to it later in their last movie The Barkleys of Broadway (1949) in which they played a married couple with marital issues. The song, in the context of Shall We Dance, notes some of the things that Peter (Astaire) will miss about Linda (Rogers). The lyrics include "the way you wear your hat, the way you sip your tea", and "the way you hold your knife, the way we danced till three." Each verse is followed by the line "no, no, they can't take that away from me." The basic meaning of the song is that even if the lovers part, though physically separated the memories cannot be forced from them. Thus it is a song of mixed joy and sadness.
The verse references the song "The Song is Ended (but the Melody Lingers On)" by Irving Berlin:
Our romance won't end on a sorrowful note, though by tomorrow you're gone. The song is ended, but as the songwriter wrote, 'the melody lingers on.' They may take you from me, I'll miss your fond caress, but though they take you from me I'll still possess....
George Gershwin died two months after the film's release, and he was posthumously nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 1937 Oscars.
The song is featured in Kenneth Branagh's musical version of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost (2000).

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Gershwin
• Ella
• Fitzgerald
• OneTrueMedia

[beyoncetyratina]

OOH, I love some of these pics :) LOL, Ella's voice and these collages of pictures match well :) Good job :)

[Shabannie]

@beyoncetyratina Thank you so much for your thoughtful comments.

-------Ellen

[543693The]

I love Ella, and this song!

I love the video

I love all hats

Hats, do not like me: (

I love Fred Astaire and Ginger ...

Thank you so much Ellen, I can say "I love" very often, thanks to you!

~~~~Marie

[Shabannie]

@543693The Thank you for your thoughtful remarks. I had fun picking out the hat pictures.

--------Ellen

[543693The]

@Shabannie

I had a lot of different pleasures, with your beautiful video :)

I had fun: make comments-no comment :)

I love hats! on my face, it's not good :))

Scarves too, but there ... no problem!

I love all your photos! I remember some ...! memories....

See you soon, Ellen! (Google ...)

~~~Marie :)

[Shabannie]

@543693The I love pretty scarves too. I have thought about doing a video about sixties fashions, but I really do not know what I will make next.

Bye for now,

Ellen

[543693The]

@Shabannie

Thank you....merci :)

~~Marie

[Shabannie]

@kindofblue21 Michael Jackson was in last year's hat video. Thank you for your nice remarks.

--------Ellen

[kindofblue21]

Love this. Great song and my two favourite film stars, Cary Grant and Fred Astaire, in there. If you had just had Michael Jackson in his fedora it would have been absolutely perfect but lovely video.

[Shabannie]

@MyNodrama  Thank you so much for watching my video. I appreciate your internet friendship.

--------Ellen