Ira Gershwin

Paul Simon - Gershwin Prize for Popular Song 06/15/2009

Birthday: December 06, 1896

Lyricist Ira Gershwin was known far and wide as one of the kindest and best-adjusted men in the music industry. It is now part of American folklore that the Gershwin boys' mother bought a piano so that Ira could take lessons, only to discover that it was George who had "the gift." Ira suppressed his own artistic aspirations while helping out in his father's many business ventures; but while ...more