He also recalls listening to the country singer Jimmie Rodgers.

He also enjoyed Hank Williams and Jimmie Rodgers.

It is also one of two Rodgers and Hammerstein films to be nominated for Best Picture ( which it does not win ).

Brian May's website also stated that Rodgers would be " featured with " Queen as " Queen + Paul Rodgers ", not replacing Mercury.

Rodgers also wrote a melody for which Hart wrote three consecutive lyrics which either were cut, not recorded or not a hit.

Rodgers also wrote both the words and music for two new songs used in the film version of " The Sound of Music ".

She also said that Rodgers and Hammerstein listened to all her suggestions and she worked extremely well with them.

Rodgers ' grandson, Adam Guettel, also a musical theatre composer, won Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Orchestrations for The Light in the Piazza in 2005.

They also gave Republican representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers 82. 45 % of their vote.

James Michener won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for his collection of short stories, Tales of the South Pacific, which in turn was the basis for South Pacific, the 1949 musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, also a Pulitzer Prize winner.

In 1997, Norwood was hand-picked by executive producer Whitney Houston to play the title character in Rodgers and Hammerstein ’ s television version of Cinderella featuring a multi-cultural cast that also included Jason Alexander, Whoopi Goldberg, and Houston.

Psychiatrists Eric Bui and Rachel Rodgers have argued that the character meets six of the nine diagnostic criteria ; Bui also found Anakin a useful example to explain BPD to medical students.

Gary Rodgers took over management of the group, and they began calling themselves ' Bobby Lester's Moonglows ' ( sometimes also referred to as ' Gary Rodgers ' Moonglows ').

Gerry and the Pacemakers ' next two singles, Murray's " I Like It " and Rodgers and Hammerstein's " You'll Never Walk Alone ", both also reached number one in the UK Singles Chart, the latter recorded instead of the Beatles ' " Hello Little Girl ", which went on to become the first hit for the Fourmost.

There are also a few antecedents to folk rock present in pre-British Invasion American rock ' n ' roll, including Elvis Presley's 1954 cover of the Bill Monroe bluegrass standard " Blue Moon of Kentucky "; Buddy Holly's self-penned material, which strongly influenced both Dylan and The Byrds ; Ritchie Valens ' recording of the Mexican folk song " La Bamba "; Lloyd Price's rock ' n ' roll adaptation of the African-American folk song " Stagger Lee " ( which had originally been recorded by Mississippi John Hurt in 1928 ); Jimmie Rodgers ' rock ' n ' roll flavored renditions of traditional folk songs ; and the folk and country-influenced recordings featured on The Everly Brothers ' 1959 album, Songs Our Daddy Taught Us.

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.

Autry was also one of the most important figures in the history of country music, considered the second major influential artist of the genre's development after Jimmie Rodgers.

Carousel is also unique among the Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals for not having an overture ; both the stage and film versions began with the familiar Carousel Waltz.

It was also included in Rodgers ' rare 1954 album for Columbia Records with the composer conducting the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.

It was a great success, winning Rodgers and Hammerstein their lone Oscar, for the song " It Might as Well Be Spring ", but it was also unadventurous material for them, compared with several of their Broadway shows.

Rodgers and Hammerstein also use the technique of what some call the " formula musical ".

The term ' formula musical ' may refer to a musical with a predictable plot, but it also refers to the casting requirements of Rodgers & Hammerstein characters.

" 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.

Broadway theatre contributed some of the most popular standards of the 1930s, including George and Ira Gershwin's " Summertime " ( 1935 ), Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's " My Funny Valentine " ( 1937 ) and Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's " All the Things You Are " ( 1939 ).

Richard Rodgers contributed twelve basic themes for the series, with three earmarked for the first episode, but those who worked on the series attribute its eleven-and-a-half hours worth of music principally to Bennett.

Rodgers contributed 12 " themes "- short piano compositions a minute or two in length ; these may be examined in the Rodgers Collection at the Library of Congress.

Cuccurullo also contributed the power chords and harmony parts on the bridges of the album track, with Nile Rodgers playing the others.

( 1965 ) ( music by Richard Rodgers ; book by Arthur Laurents ; directed by John Dexter )

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.

Leonowens's experiences in Siam were fictionalised in Margaret Landon's 1944 bestselling novel Anna and the King of Siam and in various films and television miniseries based on the book, most notably Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1951 hit musical The King and I.

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

Nile Rodgers gave a eulogy, while a member of the Nightcrawlers read chapters five and eleven from The Big Book, a self-help book by Alcoholics Anonymous.

His music-theatre work includes the texts for Philip Glass ' 1000 Airplanes on the Roof, The Voyage, and The Sound of a Voice, the book for Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida ( co-written by Linda Woolverton and Robert Falls ), the Walt Disney Company's theatrical version of Edgar Rice Burroughs ' Tarzan ( with music and lyrics by Phil Collins ), the libretti for Bright Sheng's The Silver River, Osvaldo Golijov's Ainadamar, Unsuk Chin's Alice in Wonderland ( libretto co-written by Chin ), and Howard Shore's The Fly as well as Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song.

* Flower Drum Song, music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, book by David Henry Hwang ; based upon the libretto by Oscar Hammerstein, II and Joseph Fields and the novel The Flower Drum Song by C. Y. Lee ; New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2003.

* 1950: South Pacific – Music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan.

* 1952: The King and I – Music by Richard Rodgers, book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.

Simple Simon is a Broadway musical with book by Guy Bolton, and Ed Wynn, lyrics by Lorenz Hart, music by Richard Rodgers, produced by Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., and starring Ed Wynn.

is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Richard Rodgers, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

Perhaps their best-known collaboration was on the book for the 1960 Tony Award-winning musical The Sound of Music, which featured music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Crouse's old collaborator Oscar Hammerstein II.

It was named the ' Royal Adelphi Theatre ' and re-opened with the hit musical Ever Green, by Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers, based on the book Benn W. Levy.

The book was by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, with music by Rodgers and lyrics by Hart.

Jumbo is a musical produced by Billy Rose, with music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart and book by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur.

William Robert Rodgers ( 1909 – 1969 ), known as Bertie, and born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, was probably best known as a poet, but was also a prose essayist, a book reviewer, a radio broadcaster and script writer, a lecturer and, latterly, a teacher, as well as a former Presbyterian minister.

Once Upon a Mattress is a musical comedy with music by Mary Rodgers, lyrics by Marshall Barer and book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, and Marshall Barer.

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella is a musical written for television, with music by Richard Rodgers and a book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.

In 1950, Landon sold the musical play rights to Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, who created the musical The King and I from her book.

He wrote lyrics to Richard Rodgers ' music and Peter Stone's book for the musical Two by Two ( 1970 ), which starred Danny Kaye and ran on Broadway for 10 months.

He wrote the lyrics for I Remember Mama ( 1979 ) with music by Richard Rodgers, and directed, wrote the lyrics for, and co-wrote the book for The First ( 1981 ), a musical about Jackie Robinson and the integration of baseball.