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.

Colonel Rodgers ' son, John Rodgers, was instrumental in suppressing the Tripolitan pirates in the Mediterranean Sea and was subsequently promoted to Commodore of the Mediterranean Squadron.

Rodgers thus joined Brian May and Roger Taylor ( former bassist John Deacon retired in the late 1990s ), with the group billed as Queen + Paul Rodgers and they subsequently toured worldwide in 2005 and 2006.

The band had already parted company with their producer Alex Sadkin, and Nile Rodgers was subsequently called in to help finish the album.

He then stopped at Algiers and paid a visit to the Dey, who by now was well aware of the treaty with Tripoli, and subsequently extended every courtesy to Rodgers and even consented to him donning his sword.

Rodgers subsequently resigned his commission with the blessing of President Jackson and the Secretary of the Navy.

However, Rodgers initially felt that the song did not have a good enough hook and was not suitable for Madonna, but subsequently changed his opinion after the hook was stuck in his mind.

This play was the major source for William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, which was subsequently adapted for the musical theatre by Rodgers and Hart in The Boys from Syracuse.

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.

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 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.