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

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.

" 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.

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.

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.

* 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 ' 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.

Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, and Rodgers's later collaborator Oscar Hammerstein II all attended Columbia University.

Richard Rodgers ( seated ) with Lorenz Hart in 1936.

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.

Hammerstein's most successful and sustained collaboration began when he teamed up with Richard Rodgers to write a musical adaptation of the play Green Grow the Lilacs.

Then Rodgers teamed with Journey guitarist Neal Schon and released The Hendrix Set, a live 5-track CD, recorded in 1993 with Rodgers ' interpretations of Hendrix songs.

Following the breakup of Stray Dog, Walden teamed up with the English rock singer Paul Rodgers for what would be the last configuration of the rock group Free.

In April 1968 Kossoff and Kirke teamed up with Paul Rodgers ( vocals ) and Andy Fraser ( bass ) to form Free.

While Rodgers and Fraser pursued unsuccessful solo projects, Kossoff and Kirke teamed up with Texan keyboard player John " Rabbit " Bundrick and Japanese bass player Tetsu Yamauchi to release the 1971 album Kossoff, Kirke, Tetsu and Rabbit.

In the WWWF he teamed with Nature Boy Buddy Rodgers.

After the band split, Page and Rodgers returned to solo work while Chris Slade joined AC / DC and Franklin teamed up with guitarist John Sykes in Blue Murder.

In the field of musical theatre, the Guild has promoted works by Richard Rodgers, teamed with both Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II, George and Ira Gershwin, Jule Styne, and Meredith Willson, all of which have become classics. Under President John F. Kennedy, the Guild was engaged to assemble a US theatre company, headed by Helen Hayes, to tour the capitals of Europe and South America with works by Tennessee Williams, Thornton Wilder, and William Gibson.

" Williams final style contained influences from Payne along with several other country influences, among them " the Singing Brakeman " Jimmie Rodgers, Moon Mullican, and Roy Acuff.

Ullman was later to do her own singing in Richard Rodgers ' final Broadway musical, " I Remember Mama ," with a supporting cast which included George Hearn as Papa and George S. Irving as Uncle Chris.

These marked Queen's final live performances in the US, before the death of lead vocalist Freddie Mercury in 1991 and the retirement of bass guitarist John Deacon in 1997, until the Queen + Paul Rodgers Tour, 23 years later, in 2005.

The New York Times praised the performers ( Montalban has " an old-fashioned luxurious voice "; Jason Alexander " provides comic relief "; Goldberg " winningly blends royal dignity with motherly meddling "; Peters " brings vigor and sly comedy ") but commented that the musical " was always a pumpkin that never turned into a glittering coach ... the songs are lesser Rodgers and Hammerstein ... it doesn't take that final leap into pure magic.

In 1989, the series re-located to France and became French Fields, although only McKenzie and Rodgers, of the main characters, starred regularly in this new series though Philip Bird appeared on several episodes and Ann Beach made an appearance in the final episode.

However, series creator Tom Fontana was impressed by Rodgers, so Robson became a regular starting in from the third season to the final episode.

In 1979, Ross commissioned Chic founders Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards to create material for a new album after taking her daughters to see the band in concert, following the success of Ross's final Ashford & Simpson-composed and produced LP, The Boss.

In the 2010-11 season Swansea finally won promotion to the Premier League being the first Welsh team to do so, under Brendan Rodgers, after beating his former team Reading 4-2 in the play-off final at Wembley Stadium.

They posted a losing mark in the final weeks of 1992, finished 20 games below. 500 in 1993, and were only 16 – 23 in May 1994 before Rodgers was replaced by Marcel Lachemann.

At the time of the SDP's creation, Owen and Rodgers were sitting Labour Members of Parliament ( MPs ); Jenkins had left Parliament in 1977 to serve as President of the European Commission, while Williams had lost her seat in the 1979 general election.

It becomes the most financially successful film version of a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical up to that time, and the only one to win an acting Oscar ( Yul Brynner wins Best Actor for his performance as the King of Siam ).

Between 2005 and 2006, Queen + Paul Rodgers embarked on a world tour, which was the first time Queen toured since their last tour with Freddie Mercury in 1986.

In November 2008, she earned rave reviews as Gladys Bumps in the Roundabout Theatre Company production of the classical Rodgers and Hart musical Pal Joey on Broadway and garnered her third consecutive Tony nomination, this time for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.

By this time, the Moonglows were Rodgers, Martin, Lawford, and Gene Kelly.

At the time, Jones had never heard of Rodgers and Hammerstein.

In late 1978, Debbie Harry suggested that Chic's Nile Rodgers join her and Chris Stein at a hip hop event, which at the time was a communal space taken over by teenagers with boombox stereos playing various pieces of music that performers would break dance to.

Rodgers experienced this event the first time himself at a high school in the Bronx.

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.

Shortly after Stone's death, in a memorial ceremony held June 30, 2003, at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, it was observed that the two most famous ships of all time were Noah's Ark and the Titanic, and that Stone had written Broadway musicals about both of them ( Noah's Ark being the topic of Two by Two ).

Rodgers lived for a time at the Nicklaus home while this work was going on.

Bad Company earned six platinum albums until Rodgers left in 1982 at the height of their fame stating that he wanted to spend time with his young family.

Rodgers has said that he was unreachably rural at the time, and the moment passed.

In 2003, Rodgers toured as a solo artist for the first time in two years playing 25 US dates.

" William Hawkins of the New York World-Telegram said that Merman was " bright as a whip, sure as her shooting, and generously the foremost lady clown of her time " and asserted that the show itself was comparable to those of Rodgers and Hammerstein, proclaiming, " For verve and buoyancy, unslackening, there has seldom if ever been a show like it ... the girls in Annie have the beauty and character of looks one associates with a Rodgers and Hammerstein show.

When Calbraith Perry Rodgers made his trip from Long Island to California in 1911 in his newly-bought Wright aircraft, he paid Taylor $ 70 a week ( a large sum at the time ) to be his mechanic.

The Leake County Revelers ' brand of folk music saw some national popularity late in the 1930s, at around the same time as Mississippi native Jimmie Rodgers innovated modern country music.

His first-ever marathon, the 1980 New York City race, resulted in a 2: 09: 41 win, at the time the fastest American debut and the second-fastest time recorded by a U. S. runner ( behind Bill Rodgers ' 2: 09: 27 at Boston in 1979 ).

By the time the project began to jell, however, Hammerstein had died, and Stephen Sondheim was asked by Laurents and Mary Rodgers, Richard Rodgers ' daughter, to write the lyrics.

During the Wilkes Expedition, American explorer Charles Wilkes renamed the island Rodgers Island ; the Spanish name remained on British nautical charts and over time became the island's official name.

The race failed to gain any national prominence until 1983, when renowned American distance runner Bill Rodgers won with a time of 44: 38.