Miscellaneous Songs
- 1916 - When You Want ’Em, You Can’t Get ’Em (When You’ve Got ’Em, You Don’t Want ’Em) (lyrics by Murray Roth)
- 1917 - Beautiful Bird (lyrics by Ira Gershwin and Lou Paley)
- 1917 - When There's a Chance To Dance (lyrics by Ira Gershwin)
- 1918 - Gush-Gush-Gushing (lyrics by Ira Gershwin)
- 1918 - When the Armies Disband (lyrics by Irving Caesar)
- 1918 - Good Little Tune (lyrics by Irving Caesar)
- 1919 - The Love of a Wife (lyrics by Arthur Jackson and B. G. DeSylva)
- 1919 - O Land of Mine, America (lyrics by Michael E. Rourke). A national anthem submission for a New York American competition offering five thousand dollars to the winner. Gershwin received the lowest prize of fifty dollars.
- 1920 - Yan-Kee (lyrics by Irving Caesar)
- 1921 - Phoebe (lyrics by Ira Gershwin and Lou Paley)
- 1921 - Something Peculiar (lyrics by Ira Gershwin and Lou Paley)
- 1921 - Dixie Rose (lyrics by Irving Caesar and B. G. DeSylva)
- 1921 - In the Heart of a Geisha (lyrics by Fred Fisher)
- 1921 - Swanee Rose (lyrics by Irving Caesar and B. G. DeSylva)
- 1921 - Tomale (I’m Hot for You) (lyrics by B. G. DeSylva)
- c.1921 - Molly-on-the-Shore (lyrics by Ira Gershwin)
- c.1921 - Mischa, Yascha, Toscha, Sascha (lyrics by Ira Gershwin)
- This is Gershwin's only finished work based on a Jewish theme, and the title is a reference to the first names of four Jewish-Russian violinists, Mischa Elman, Jascha Heifetz, Toscha Seidel and Sascha Jacobsen.
- 1922 - The Flapper (co-composed with William Daly, lyrics by B. G. DeSylva)
- 1925 - Harlem River Chanty and It’s a great little world! (lyrics by Ira Gershwin, originally composed for Tip-Toes on Broadway but not used)
- 1925 - Murderous Monty (and Light-Fingered Jane) (lyrics by Desmond Carter, composed for London production of Tell Me More.)
- 1926 - I’d rather charleston (lyrics by Desmond Carter, composed for London production of Lady Be Good.)
- 1928 - Beautiful gypsy and Rosalie (originally composed for Rosalie on Broadway, but not used)
- 1929 - Feeling Sentimental (originally composed for Show Girl on Broadway, but not used)
- 1929 - In the Mandarin’s Orchid Garden
- 1932 - You’ve got what gets me (composed for the first film version of Girl Crazy.
- 1933 - Till Then
- 1936 - King of Swing (lyrics by Al Stillman)
- 1936 - Strike Up the Band for U.C.L.A (to the same music as the song "Strike Up the Band")
- 1937 - Hi-Ho! (lyrics by Ira Gershwin, originally composed for Shall We Dance, but not used)
- 1938 - Just Another Rhumba (lyrics by Ira Gershwin, originally composed for The Goldwyn Follies, but not used)
- 1938 - Dawn of a New Day
Read more about this topic: List Of Compositions By George Gershwin
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