Strike Up the Band (song)

Although the musical was not successful, the instrumental version of the song, titled the "March from Strike Up the Band", has become quite well known.

George and Ira Gershwin had moved from New York to Beverly Hills to work in Los Angeles on the Fred Astaire movie Shall We Dance.

Ira Gershwin revised the lyrics and called the new version "Strike Up the Band for UCLA".

[1] The George and Ira Gershwin Award is presented annually at UCLA during Spring Sing at Pauley Pavilion or at the Los Angeles Tennis Center on campus.

lang, James Taylor, Kenneth Babyface Edmonds, Burt Bacharach, Quincy Jones, Lionel Richie, Julie Andrews and Brian Wilson.