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Olivia Kuper Harris performs “Someone to Watch Over Me” by Gertrude Lawrence, The Voice 2025 Season 27 Semifinals. Startattle.com – The Voice.
Olivia Kuper Harris The Voice Semifinals
Contestant: Olivia Kuper Harris
Age: 34
Hometown: Manhattan, New York
Coach: John Legend
Song: “Someone to Watch Over Me” by Gertrude Lawrence
Result: TBA
Olivia Kuper Harris The Voice Semifinals
Olivia Kuper Harris The Voice 2025 Semifinals “Someone to Watch Over Me” Gertrude Lawrence, Season 27.
Olivia Kuper Harris Someone to Watch Over Me The Voice Semifinals
“Someone to Watch Over Me” is a 1926 song composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, assisted by Howard Dietz who penned the title. It was written for the musical Oh, Kay! (1926), with the part originally sung on Broadway by English actress Gertrude Lawrence while holding a rag doll in a sentimental solo scene. The musical ran for more than 200 performances in New York and then saw equivalent acclaim in London in 1927, all with the song as its centerpiece. Lawrence released the song as a medium-tempo single which rose to number 2 on the charts in 1927.
Initially, “Someone to Watch Over Me” was written by George Gershwin for the musical Oh, Kay! as a “fast and jazzy” up-tempo rhythm tune – marked scherzando (playful) in the sheet music – but in the 1930s and 1940s it was recorded by singers in a slower ballad form, which became the standard. The definitive slow torch song version was first released by Lee Wiley in 1939, followed by Margaret Whiting in 1944.
Howard Dietz, who was involved in composing other songs in Oh Kay! while Ira Gershwin was hospitalized for six weeks for a ruptured appendix, claimed that he helped write the lyrics to “Someone to Watch Over Me”. He was not named in the song credits, and he was paid very little for his contribution. Dietz said in his 1974 memoir that the song’s title was his idea, a fact first revealed by Ira in his 1959 book Lyrics on Several Occasions.
Lawrence’s performances of the song in 1926 and 1927 were presented in a solo scene at the beginning of Act II, with Lawrence wearing a maid’s uniform and singing to a rag doll that she held in her hand. The rag doll was described in male gender terms by George Gershwin in 1934, saying: “I don’t know where he is now… He certainly did his part well.” Gershwin said he found the doll in a toy shop in Philadelphia, where the play was in development, and he gave it to Lawrence to use as a prop in the scene, to increase the sense of her character’s vulnerability. This late addition surprised the play’s director.
Show: The Voice
Season: The Voice 2025 (Season 27)
Host: Carson Daly
Coaches: John Legend, Michael Bublé, Adam Levine, Kelsea Ballerini
The twenty-seventh season of the American reality television series The Voice premiered on February 3, 2025 on NBC. The season is hosted by Carson Daly who has hosted every season of the show. The coaching panel consists of Michael Bublé, who returns for his second consecutive season; John Legend, who returns for his tenth season after a one-season hiatus; Adam Levine, who returns for his seventeenth season after last coaching during the sixteenth season; and Kelsea Ballerini, who joins the panel as a new coach.
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