Love Is Here To Stay

Love Is Here to Stay
by George & Ira Gershwin
Original Cover of George and Ira Gershwin's Love Is Here To Stay
Genre	Popular song from the 1938 film The Goldwyn Follies
Publisher	Chappell & Co. Inc
Additional music by Vernon Duke

"Love Is Here to Stay" is a popular song and jazz standard. The music was written by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin for the movie The Goldwyn Follies (1938).

“Love Is Here to Stay” was first performed by Kenny Baker in The Goldwyn Follies but did not reach popularity until 1951 when it was sung by Gene Kelly to Leslie Caron in the film An American in Paris. The song later went on to appear in several other films, including Forget Paris (1995) and Woody Allen’s Manhattan (1979). It can also be heard in the film When Harry Met Sally (1989) sung by Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald.

An instrumental version of the song is heard in an episode of The Honeymooners when Alice turns to Ralph and says: “I loved you ever since the day I walked in your bus and you shortchanged me."

The song is also used in the musical, The 1940's Radio Hour; however, it was not included in the 2015 Broadway musical An American in Paris.

“Love Is Here to Stay” was the last musical composition George Gershwin completed before his death on July 11, 1937. Ira Gershwin wrote the words after George's death as a tribute to his brother’s passing. Although George had not initially written a verse for the song, he did have an idea for it that both Ira and pianist Oscar Levant had heard prior to his death. Later, when a verse was needed, Ira and Levant recalled what they knew George had had in mind, and composer Vernon Duke reconstructed the music for the verse at the beginning of the song.