Ivri Lider - "The Man I Love" (2006; orig from 1924)

"The Man I Love" is a popular standard, with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by his brother Ira. Originally part of the 1924 score for the Gershwin government satire Lady, Be Good as "The Girl I Love", the song was deleted from the show as well as from both the 1927 anti-war satire Strike Up the Band (where it first appeared as "The Man I Love") and 1928 Ziegfeld hit Rosalie after tryouts. As with many standards of the era, it has become more famous as an independent popular song than as one from a Broadway musical. Popular torch singer Helen Morgan first made the song into a big success. The best-known recording over the years of the crooner Vaughn De Leath (1894–1943) was perhaps the version of "The Man I Love" she sang with Paul Whiteman's Concert Orchestra for Columbia. Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, and Lena Horne recorded versions of this song, as did Ella Fitzgerald for Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook (1959). On this version, Ira Gershwin commented, "I didn't realize our songs were so good until Ella sang them". Hazel O'Connor recorded a version for her Smile album in 1984. The singer and actress Peg La Centra doubles Ida Lupino in the movie The Man I Love when Ida Lupino's character Petey Brown sings The Man I Love. Liza Minnelli (who is Ira Gershwin's god-daughter) performed the song in the 1977 film New York, New York. Cher recorded the song for her album Bittersweet White Light (1973). Diane Schuur recorded the song for her album In Tribute (1992). Barbra Streisand recorded the song for her album Back to Broadway (1993). In 1995, Tony Bennett recorded the song for his MTV Unplugged performance with lyrics revised by Ira Gershwin as "The Girl I Love". In 2000, the song was recorded by Omara Portuondo in the album Bueno Vista Social Club presents: Omara Portuondo, under the title El Hombre que yo Amé (The Man I Love). In 2006, Israeli musician Ivri Lider recorded a version of "The Man I Love" as a part of the soundtrack from the movie THE BUBBLE. Ivri Lider, born 10 February, 1974, is an Israeli pop rock singer-songwriter. He is one of the biggest-selling contemporary artists in Israeli music, and has won the Male Singer of the Year honor from major Israeli national and local radio stations since entering the Israeli music scene in the late 1990s. In 2008, Malian musician Rokia Traoré recorded the song for her album Tchamanché. She had previously performed it in 2005 as a duet with Dianne Reeves. In April 2011, Edna Goren, the First Lady of Jazz in Israel, performed the song in a jazz concert at "Club Hed" in Tel Aviv, with new Hebrew lyrics by Chaim Keinan. Django Reinhardt also played a version of this song. As Omara Portuondo , who named it "El Hombre Que Yo Amé". The song also appeared on Vassilikos's first solo album Vintage.