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Nice Work If You Can Get It

1937 song by George and Ira Gershwin
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Nice Work If You Can Get It

Summary

Nice Work If You Can Get It is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (126 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Nice Work If You Can Get It's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • Nice Work If You Can Get It's composer is recorded as George Gershwin[4].
  • Nice Work If You Can Get It's genre is jazz[5].
  • Among the performers on Nice Work If You Can Get It was Fred Astaire[6].
  • Among the performers on Nice Work If You Can Get It was Ella Fitzgerald[7].
  • Among the performers on Nice Work If You Can Get It was Frank Sinatra[8].
  • Nice Work If You Can Get It was performed by Frank Sinatra[9].
  • Nice Work If You Can Get It's language of work or name is recorded as English[10].
  • Nice Work If You Can Get It was published on 1937[11].
  • Nice Work If You Can Get It's lyricist is recorded as Ira Gershwin[12].
  • Nice Work If You Can Get It's tonality is recorded as G major[13].
  • Nice Work If You Can Get It's described at URL is recorded as http://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/n/nice_work_if_get_it_p.html[14].
  • Nice Work If You Can Get It's described by source is recorded as JazzStandards.com[15].
  • Nice Work If You Can Get It's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Nice Work If You Can Get It'}[16].
  • Nice Work If You Can Get It's has characteristic is recorded as film song[17].
  • Nice Work If You Can Get It's has characteristic is recorded as jazz standard[18].
  • Nice Work If You Can Get It's different from is recorded as Nice Work If You Can Get It[19].
  • Nice Work If You Can Get It's first line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'The man who only lives for making money'}[20].
  • Nice Work If You Can Get It's form of creative work is recorded as song[21].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Song[22]

  • Genre(s): avant-garde jazz, jazz[23]

  • Community tags: avant-garde jazz, jazz[24]

  • MusicBrainz ID: f357f974-037d-342a-b514-62c72a45c76a[25]

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Authorship and Creation

Performers include Fred Astaire[6], Ella Fitzgerald[7], and Frank Sinatra[8].

Publication

Nice Work If You Can Get It was released on 1937[11]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[10]. Its genre is jazz[5].

Why It Matters

Nice Work If You Can Get It ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (126 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26]

Related Entities

Ella Fitzgerald Frank Sinatra Fred Astaire George Gershwin Ira Gershwin

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . musicbrainz.org. Retrieved . musicbrainz.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [22] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [25] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Language of work or name → English
    Performer → Fred Astaire, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra +1
    Form of creative work → song
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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