" Speaking of Milt Brown and himself working with songs done by Jimmie Davis, the Skillet Lickers, Jimmie Rodgers, and others, and songs he'd learned from his father, he said that " We'd pull these tunes down an set ' em in a dance category.

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

Henry moved to Maui in 1971 thus establishing himself in all the show rooms in the hotels and produced many jazz concerts over the years with the likes of Shorty Rodgers, Bud Shank, Lonne Smith, Gary Grant, Jay Leno Horns ,( Chuck Findley, Ralph Moore, Slyde Richard Hyde ) Gabe Baltazar and a series for Lana ' i, called Jazz Under the Stars, of which the famous Howard Rumsey of the Hermosa Beach Light House fame was a part.

Kay appeared on stage at the Queen + Paul Rodgers concert at Manchester's MEN Arena ( with Patrick McGuinness ) and in London's Hyde Park in 2005 both as himself and in the persona of Brian Potter.

" Speaking of Milton Brown and himself — working with popular songs done by Jimmie Davis, the Skillet Lickers, Jimmie Rodgers, songs he'd learned from his father and others — Wills said that " We'd ... pull these tunes down an set ' em in a dance category.

Seizing this first and tenuous possibility, the President's forecastle bow chasers fired the first shot of the war, by Rodgers himself, with two more almost immediately following.

Many songs produced by Dave Rodgers have become massive hits, such as " Space Boy " by Dave Rodgers himself, " Music for the People " by Dave Rodgers Himself also covered by V6, " Try Me " by Amuro Namie, " Go Go Money " by Neo, " Original Sin " by Powerful T. and " Get Wild " with a collaboration with Tetsuya Komuro.

In the 1932 musical Love Me Tonight, Maurice Chevalier sings the Rodgers and Hart tune " The Poor Apache ," dressed as an Apache himself.

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 ".

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

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 ).

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

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.

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.

Rodgers factory is also featured in Karen Axelrod and Bruce Brumberg ’ s popular “ Watch it Made in the U. S. A .” books profiling interesting factory tours of American manufacturing facilities.

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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.

'" After Oklahoma !, Rodgers and Hammerstein were the most important contributors to the musical-play form – with such masterworks as Carousel, The King and I and South Pacific.

* " I Am Going to Like It Here " by Oscar Hammerstein ( and Richard Rodgers ) ( imperfect pantoum from the musical Flower Drum Song )

** Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I opens on Broadway and runs for 3 years.

** The film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I, starring Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner, is released only a few months after the film version of R & H's Carousel.

They are: George and Ira Gershwin's Of Thee I Sing ( 1932 ) ¹, Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific ( 1950 ), Bock & Harnick's Fiorello!

Rodgers went on to work with lyricists Stephen Sondheim ( Do I Hear A Waltz?

After Peggy Lee recorded her version of " Lover ", a Rodgers song with a dramatically different arrangement than originally conceived by him, Rodgers said, " I don't know why Peggy picked on me, she could have **** ed up " Silent Night ".

On January 26, 2009, she made an appearance on The View, singing " I Would Never Leave You " ( written by Johnny Rodgers, Billy Stritch, and Brian Lane Green ) from her new CD Liza's at The Palace ...!.

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.

The novel was adapted as a hit musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, The King and I ( 1951 ), starring Gertrude Lawrence and Yul Brynner, which ran 1, 246 performances on Broadway.

Other movies influenced by or making use of Uncle Tom's Cabin include Dimples ( a 1936 Shirley Temple film ), Uncle Tom's Uncle, ( a 1926 Our Gang episode ), its 1932 remake Spanky, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I ( in which a ballet called " Small House of Uncle Thomas " is performed in traditional Siamese style ), and Gangs of New York ( in which Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day-Lewis's characters attend an imagined wartime adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin ).

There was a song that Rodgers and Hammerstein had written, called Boys and Girls Like You and I, that Judy did wonderfully, but it slowed up the picture and it was cut out.

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.

Her engagement led to her own star vehicle, successful UPN sitcom Moesha in 1996, and resulted in roles in the 1998 horror sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, and the TV films Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella ( 1997 ) and Double Platinum ( 1999 ), two of television's best-rated special programs.

Valerie Hobson's last starring role was in the original London production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical play The King and I which opened at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on October 8, 1953.

* " I Don't Know How " w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers

* " I Feel At Home With You " w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers

*" Why Do I " w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers.

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.

Lynyrd Skynyrd's song Railroad Song references Haggard, " Well I'm a ride this train Lord until I find out / What Jimmy Rodgers and the Hag was all about ", Nuthin ' Fancy Nuthin ' Fancy.

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.