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 contributed to the book on several of these shows.

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.

In the Victory At Sea suite, Richard Rodgers wrote " Beneath The Southern Cross " to depict the battleships in convoy and the loneliness of the sailors in the Southern Pacific during World War II.

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.

Sondheim famously hated his mother ; he once wrote a thank-you note to close friend Mary Rodgers that read, " Dear Mary and Hank, Thanks for the plate, but where was my mother's head?

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.

In 1965 he wrote the lyrics only for Do I Hear a Waltz ?, with music by Richard Rodgers.

* The Mad Show ( 1966 ) ( music mostly by Mary Rodgers ; lyrics mostly by Marshall Barer ) wrote the lyric for " The Boy From ...", a parody of " The Girl from Ipanema ".

After Hammerstein's death in 1960, Rodgers wrote both words and music for his first new Broadway project No Strings ( 1962, which earned two Tony Awards ).

Alec Wilder wrote the following about Rodgers:

Rodgers and Hart subsequently wrote the music and lyrics for 26 Broadway musicals during a more-than-20-year partnership that ended only with Hart's early death.

Rodgers wrote the music for musicals and revues including Once Upon a Mattress ( 1959 ), From A to Z ( 1960 ), Hot Spot ( 1963 ), The Mad Show ( 1966 ), Working ( 1978 ), and Phyllis Newman's one-woman show The Madwoman of Central Park West ( 1979 ).

She eventually transitioned into writing children's books, most notably, Freaky Friday ( 1972 ), which was made into a feature film ( released 1977 ) for which Rodgers wrote the screenplay.

Frederick Nolan writes that " My Romance " ( written for Jumbo ) " features some of the most elegantly wistful lyrics ... is, quite simply, one of the best songs Rodgers and Hart ever wrote.

So when Rodgers wrote two extra songs for the film, he wrote the lyrics as well.

In 1970, they shot up the international radio charts with " All Right Now ", which Rodgers wrote with the group's bassist Andy Fraser.

Rodgers wrote the title track and was backed by guitarists Brian May, Gary Moore, David Gilmour, Jeff Beck, Steve Miller, Buddy Guy, Richie Sambora, Brian Setzer, Slash and Trevor Rabin.

In his review of the Bernadette Peters recording Bernadette Peters Loves Rodgers and Hammerstein ( Angel Records, 2002 ), John Kenrick wrote: " Jonathan Tunick provides the brilliant arrangements.

Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart wrote the original score, which included the standards " Mimi ", " Lover ", and " Isn't It Romantic?

He also conducted the orchestra for the only musical that Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote specifically for film, State Fair ( 1945 ), and its 1962 remake.

In 1955 she released her first ( and only ) solo album, Songs I Taught My Mother, which featured " silly, sinful, and satirical " songs by Sheldon Harnick, Vernon Duke, John La Touche, Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hart, and Marc Blitzstein ( who reportedly wrote the song " Modest Maid " especially for Rae ), among others.

Rodgers himself wrote, “ I give him credit without undue modesty, for making my music sound better than it was .”

At the invitation of Rodgers, Holland wrote a paper on the case for state holding companies and planning agreements for a conference organised by the Centre-Right Socialist Commentary journal.