Like the Gershwins, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart were loath to let a good song get away from them.

" Another song, " Manhattan " ( by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart for the 1925 musical " Garrick Gaieties "), declares " We'll have Manhattan ,/ The Bronx and Staten / Island too ./ It's lovely going through / the zoo.

Past writers and directors have included Columbians Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, Lorenz Hart, I. A. L.

Many Columbia alumni have gone on to renowned careers in the arts, such as the composers Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Lorenz Hart, and Art Garfunkel.

Rodgers ' first partner, Lorenz Hart, originally planned to collaborate with Rodgers on this piece, but his alcoholism had become out of control, and he was unable to write.

( This has often been the case with American popular song and musicals in the 20th century, as with Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's collaboration, although with the later team of Rodgers and Hammerstein the lyrics were generally written first.

Richard Rodgers ( seated ) with Lorenz Hart in 1936.

His partnership with Hart having problems because of the lyricist's unreliability and declining health, Rodgers began working with Oscar Hammerstein II, with whom he had previously written a number of songs ( before ever working with Lorenz Hart ).

Lorenz Milton Hart ( May 2, 1895 – November 22, 1943 ) was the lyricist half of the Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart.

After George Washington Slept Here ( 1940 ), Kaufman and Hart called it quits, although throughout the 1930s, Hart worked both with and without Kaufman on several musicals and revues, including: Face the Music ( 1932 ); As Thousands Cheer ( 1933 ), with songs by Irving Berlin ; Jubilee ( musical ) ( 1935 ), with songs by Cole Porter ; and I'd Rather Be Right ( 1937 ), with songs by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.

I'd Rather Be Right is a musical with a book by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, lyrics by Lorenz Hart, and music by Richard Rodgers.

Produced by John Cale, it featured Nico's version of the Richard Rodgers / Lorenz Hart song " My Funny Valentine ".

Featuring songs by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, it was directed by Rouben Mamoulian, who, with the help of the songwriters, was able to put his ideas of the integrated musical ( a musical which blends songs and dialogue so the songs advance the plot ).

Classic pop embraces the song output of the Broadway and Hollywood show tune writers from approximately World War I to the 1950s, such as Irving Berlin, Victor Herbert, Harry Warren, Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Johnny Mercer, Dorothy Fields, Hoagy Carmichael, Cole Porter and a host of others.

Babes in Arms is a 1937 musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart and book by Rodgers and Hart.

However, Sherman had trouble in getting permission to record for profit from some of the well-known composers and lyricists, who did not tolerate parodies or satires of their melodies and lyrics, including Irving Berlin, Richard Rodgers, George and Ira Gershwin, Alan Jay Lerner, and Frederick Loewe, as well as the estates of Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Kurt Weill, and Bertolt Brecht, which prevented him from releasing parodies or satires of their songs.

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* " The Little Things You Do " w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers

* " A Ship Without A Sail " w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers.

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Several of these double entries have been collected by Ben Bagley and Michael McWhinney, along with Rodgers and Hart songs that disappeared permanently en route to New York and others that reached Broadway but have not become part of the constantly heard Rodgers and Hart repertory, in a delightfully refreshing album, Rodgers And Hart Revisited ( Spruce Records, 505 Fifth Avenue, New York ).

Among the particular gems in this collection is the impudent opening song of `` The Garrick Gaieties '', an impressive forecast of the wit and melody that were to come from Rodgers and Hart in the years that followed ; ;

Altogether fifteen virtually unknown Rodgers and Hart songs are sung by a quintet of able vocalists.

Other key traditional pop and jazz ballads include: " Body and Soul " by Johnny Green ; " Misty " by Erroll Garner ; " The Man I Love " by George Gershwin ; " My Funny Valentine " by Rodgers and Hart, " God Bless the Child " by Billie Holiday, " Ev ' ry Time We Say Goodbye " by Cole Porter, the instrumental ballad " Naima " by John Coltrane, " In a Sentimental Mood " by Duke Ellington and " Always " by Irving Berlin.

* Manhattan ( song ), written in 1925 by Rodgers and Hart

Marlene Dietrich sang songs successfully in her films, and Rodgers and Hart wrote a few well-received films, but even their popularity waned by 1932.

Rodgers and Hart struggled for years in the field of musical comedy, writing a number of amateur shows.

Rodgers was considering quitting show business altogether to sell children's underwear, when he and Hart finally broke through in 1925.

The show's biggest hit — the song that Rodgers believed " made " Rodgers and Hart — was " Manhattan " sung by Ruth Tester and Allan Gould.

The Law, Rodgers's 1991 musical venture with former The Who and Faces drummer Kenney Jones, produced Billboards number one AOR chart hit " Laying Down The Law " written by Rodgers, but the album peaked at number 126 on the Billboard 200 chart.

Robert Russell Bennett did the scoring, transforming Rodgers's themes for a variety of moods, and composing much more original material than Rodgers, as may be observed in Bennett's holograph scores, archived with Bennett's papers at Northwestern University and microfilmed at the Library of Congress.

The song " You'll Never Walk Alone ", originally from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel and later recorded by Liverpool musicians Gerry & The Pacemakers, is the club's anthem and has been sung by the Anfield crowd since the early 1960s.

It was at the opening of South Pacific, the musical Hammerstein wrote with Richard Rodgers, that Sondheim met Harold Prince, who would later direct many of Sondheim's shows.

The hardworking Rodgers later regretted these relatively fallow years, but he and Hart did write a number of classic songs and film scores while out west, including Love Me Tonight ( 1932 ) ( directed by Rouben Mamoulian, who would later direct Rodgers ' Oklahoma!

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" Rodgers ' children's books include A Billion for Boris ( 1974, later republished under the title ESP TV ), Summer Switch ( 1982 ), and The Rotten Book ( 1985 ), and she contributed songs to the landmark children's album Free to Be ... You and Me.

Merman accepted, but in November Kern suffered a stroke while in New York City visiting Rodgers and Hammerstein ( the producers of the show ) and died a few days later.

" Two of the kids were twins named Simon and Gar Farkel ( played by cast members of different races ; originally Goldie Hawn and Chelsea Brown, later Pamela Rodgers and Teresa Graves ).

Bristol is probably best known for being the site of some of the first commercial recordings of country music, showcasing Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family, and later a favorite venue of the mountain musician Uncle Charlie Osborne.

The team made its TV debut on the very first broadcast of CBS-TV network's Toast of the Town ( later called The Ed Sullivan Show ) with Ed Sullivan and Rodgers & Hammerstein appearing on this same inaugural telecast of June 20, 1948.

These included Roy Hattersley, Shirley Williams, Bill Rodgers and David Owen all of whom he was later to sit with in the Callaghan cabinet.

Fox also produced Broadway musicals, including the Rodgers and Hammerstein films, beginning with the musical version of State Fair in 1945, and continuing years later with Carousel in 1956, The King and I, and The Sound of Music.

She later starred in Rodgers and Hart's Pal Joey on Broadway.

It would later be adapted by Rodgers and Hammerstein as Oklahoma !.

#* This was later re-recorded for the Paul Rodgers 1982 solo studio album Cut Loose.

A few weeks later Rodgers was on the dance floor of New York club LaViticus and heard the DJ play a song which opened with Bernard Edwards ' bass line from Chic's " Good Times ".

Rodgers admitted that he was originally upset with the song, but would later declare it to be " one of favorite songs of all time " and his favorite of all the tracks that sampled Chic.

Rodgers, who later became known as the Father Of Country Music, cut " The Soldier's Sweetheart " and " Sleep, Baby, Sleep ", while the Carters ' first sides included " Single Girl, Married Girl ".

Many years later, when he and Oscar Hammerstein II appeared as mystery guests on What's My Line ?, Rodgers recalled Allen's act, sitting on the edge of the stage, his legs dangling down, playing a banjo while telling jokes.

Paul Rodgers played bass ( he later moved onto vocals ) in local band The Roadrunners, which just before leaving Middlesbrough for the London music scene changed its name to The Wildflowers.