Love Is Here to Stay is a 1938 pop-jazz standard composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin for the film The Goldwyn Follies. It was first performed by Kenny Baker in that movie and later gained fame when Gene Kelly sang it to Leslie Caron in An American in Paris (1951). The tune was originally titled It’s Here to Stay and then Our Love Is Here to Stay, and was published as Love Is Here to Stay after George Gershwin’s death in 1937, with Ira completing the lyrics and Vernon Duke reconstructing the verse. It has appeared in films such as Manhattan (1979) and Forget Paris (1995), and in When Harry Met Sally (1989) sung by Harry Connick Jr. The song has become a jazz and pop standard and has been recorded by many artists, including Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, and Doris Day. There is also a collaborative album titled Love Is Here to Stay by Tony Bennett and Diana Krall.
