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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 ).
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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.
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.
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( 1965 ) ( music by Richard Rodgers ; book by Arthur Laurents ; directed by John Dexter )
* Hot Spot ( 1963 ) ( music mostly by Mary Rodgers ; lyrics mostly by Martin Charnin )
However, by 1950 the Pulitzer committee included composer Richard Rodgers as a recipient when South Pacific won the award, in recognition of music as an integral and important part of the theatrical experience.
Richard Charles Rodgers ( June 28, 1902 – December 31, 1979 ) was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals.
Rodgers won an Emmy for the music for the ABC documentary Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years, scored by Eddie Sauter, Hershy Kay, and Robert Emmett Dolan.
The BBC Proms that year devoted an entire evening to Rodgers ' music including a concert performance of Oklahoma!
A revue of Rodgers ' music titled Hey, Love, conceived and directed by Richard Maltby, Jr. ran in June 1993 at Eighty-Eight's in New York City.
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.
Love Me Tonight is a 1932 musical comedy film produced and directed by Rouben Mamoulian, with music by Rodgers and Hart.
" His father's record collection exposed him to various musical genres, such as the blues of Muddy Waters ; the gospel of Mahalia Jackson ; the jazz of Charlie Parker ; the folk music of Woody Guthrie ; and country music from Hank Williams and Jimmie Rodgers, while the first record he ever bought was by blues musician Sonny Terry.
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.
Babes in Arms is a 1937 musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart and book by Rodgers and Hart.
Also in country music, Merle Haggard's Same Train, Different Time, a tribute to Jimmie Rodgers, was enormously popular and influenced the development of the Bakersfield sound into outlaw country within a few years.
In country music, artists such as Jimmie Rodgers, Moon Mullican and Bob Wills introduced many elements of swing along with blues to create a genre called western swing.
The roots of commercial country music are generally traced to 1927, when music talent scout Ralph Peer recorded Jimmie Rodgers and The Carter Family.
Capitol released a number of soundtrack recordings in the 1950s, including the film versions of three Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals Oklahoma !, Carousel, and The King and I, as well as excerpts from Dimitri Tiomkin's music from Warner Bros .' Giant.
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" 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.
Rodgers and Hammerstein received a special Pulitzer Prize for Oklahoma!
** Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I opens on Broadway and runs for 3 years.
It's the first Rodgers & Hammerstein musical specifically written for an actress ( Gertrude Lawrence ).
* March 31 – Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, the team's only musical written especially for television, is telecast live and in color by CBS, starring Julie Andrews in the title role.
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 ).
It is also one of two Rodgers and Hammerstein films to be nominated for Best Picture ( which it does not win ).
* October 11 – 70-mm film for projection is introduced with the theatrical release of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical film, Oklahoma!
Wilkes had given the name Navy Archipelago to the San Juan Islands, and named individual islands for distinguished officers of the US Navy, such as Rodgers Island for San Juan Island, and Hull Island for Orcas Island.
* America Applauds: An Evening for Richard Rodgers ( 1951 )
alt = l-r: Paul Rodgers, Roger Taylor, and Brian May live in 2005 for the Queen + Paul Rodgers tour.
" Costume designer Aggie Guerard Rodgers noted that the inspiration for Leia's slave outfit came from the artwork of famed fantasy and science fiction illustrator Frank Frazetta.
In 1973 production was shared by David Hatch with John Cassels ( for six episodes ) and with Bob Oliver Rodgers ( for two episodes ).
Rodgers and Hart struggled for years in the field of musical comedy, writing a number of amateur shows.
When he was just out of college Rodgers worked as musical director for Lew Fields.
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