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Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A Fine Romance", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "All the Things You Are", "The Way You Look Tonight", "Long Ago (and Far Away)" and "Who?". He collaborated with many of the leading librettists and lyricists of his era, including George Grossmith Jr., Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Dorothy Fields, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin and E. Y. Harburg.
A native New Yorker, Kern created dozens of Broadway musicals and Hollywood films in a career that lasted for more than four decades. His musical innovations, such as 4/4 dance rhythms and the employment of syncopation and jazz progressions, built on, rather than rejected, earlier musical theatre tradition. He and his collaborators also employed his melodies to further the action or develop characterization to a greater extent than in the other musicals of his day, creating the model for later musicals. Although dozens of Kern's musicals and musical films were hits, only Show Boat is now regularly revived. Songs from his other shows, however, are still frequently performed and adapted. Although Kern detested jazz arrangements of his songs, many have been adopted by jazz musicians to become standard tunes.
Saint Jerome (/dʒəˈroʊm/; Latin: Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus; Greek: Εὐσέβιος Σωφρόνιος Ἱερώνυμος; c. 347 – 30 September 420) was a priest, confessor, theologian and historian, who also became a Doctor of the Church. He was the son of Eusebius, born at Stridon, a village near Emona on the border of Dalmatia and Pannonia, then part of northeastern Italy. He is best known for his translation of most of the Bible into Latin (the translation that became known as the Vulgate), and his commentaries on the Gospels. His list of writings is extensive. The protégé of Pope Damasus I, who died in December of 384, Jerome was known for his teachings on Christian moral life, especially to those living in cosmopolitan centers such as Rome. In many cases, he focused his attention to the lives of women and identified how a woman devoted to Jesus Christ should live her life. This focus stemmed from his close patron relationships with several prominent female ascetics who were members of affluent senatorial families.
"The Way You Look Tonight" is a song featured in the film Swing Time, originally performed by Fred Astaire. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1936. In 2004 the Astaire version finished at #43 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema.
The song was sung to Ginger Rogers as Penelope "Penny" Carroll by Astaire in character as John "Lucky" Garnett, while Penny was busy washing her hair in an adjacent room, and feeling anything but beautiful at the time. The song was written by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Dorothy Fields, and has become a standard. Fields later remarked, "The first time Jerry played that melody for me I went out and started to cry. The release absolutely killed me. I couldn't stop, it was so beautiful."
The song was released in 1936 as a duet between Bing Crosby and his then-wife Dixie Lee. Billie Holiday recorded this song in the same year as the film; her version can be found on several collections including her Columbia box set from 2001. It was also a big R&B hit for Los Angeles-based, multiracial group, The Jaguars in 1956. The song also gave The Lettermen their first hit in 1961, hitting #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and #36 in the UK Singles Chart.
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Sondheim deconstructs "All The Things You Are" - Jerome Kern
Jerome Kern - All The Things You Are [Song by Jerome Kern] 1939
Leo Reisman - I Won't Dance - Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II/Otto Harbach
Who? (Jerome Kern) - Brent Barrett & Rebecca Luker
Jerome Kern - Biographies: Jerome Kern The Man And The Music Part I
'A Symphonic Story of Jerome Kern' - Steinberg conducts
" The Way You Look Tonight " by Jerome Kern & Dorothy Fields
Actors: Reed Howes (actor), Stuart Holmes (actor), Harry Hayden (actor), Russell Hicks (actor), Lee Bennett (actor), Sam Harris (actor), William Halligan (actor), Byron Foulger (actor), Van Heflin (actor), Ralph Dunn (actor), Stanley Andrews (actor), William Forrest (actor), Rex Evans (actor), James Finlayson (actor), Van Johnson (actor),
Plot: Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists, including a condensed production of his most famous: 'Showboat'.
Keywords: aspiring-singer, collaborator, composition, daughter, engagement, england, jealousy, lusitania, mentor, music-arrangerTRACK LISTING: 1. Long Ago And Far Away - Joe Stafford (Covergirl) 2. A Fine Romance - Diahann Carroll 3. The Last Time I Saw Paris - Ann Southern (Lady Be Good) 4. The Song Is You - Frank Sinatra (Music In The Air) 5. Intro (Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Instrumental) - Roberta 6. Yesterdays - Barbra Streisand (Roberta) 7. The Touch Of Your Hand - Mario Lanza (Roberta) 8. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Dinah Washington (Roberta) 9. Lovely To Look At - Eddie Duchin & His Orchestra, Lee Sherwood Vocal (Roberta) 10. Look For The Silver Lining - Judy Garland (Sally) 11. Make Believe - Howard Keel & Katherine Grayson (Showboat) 12. Ol' Man River - Paul Robeson (Showboat) 13. Can't Help Loving That Man - Barbra Streisand (Showboat) 14. Bill - Helen Morgan (Showboat) 15. Who - Judy Garland (Sunny) 16. Don...
Appearing on Marian McPartland's "Piano Jazz", Stephen Sondheim explains what makes Kern so great!
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"I Won't Dance" is a song composed by Jerome Kern, with lyrics written by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach, for the 1934 musical Three Sisters. However, Three Sisters flopped and was quickly forgotten, so when the time came to film the Kern-Harbach musical Roberta, the song was interpolated into the film. It became such a hit that it is now included in all stage revivals and recordings of Roberta. For the RKO film Roberta (1935), Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh changed the lyrics of the song, only keeping the title, which Hammerstein originated. It is the Fields and McHugh lyrics which are best known today. Leo Reisman (October 11, 1897 - December 18, 1961) was a violinist and bandleader in the 1920s and 1930s. Born and reared in Boston, Reisman studied violin as a young man, and f...
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Robert Russell Bennett arranged ten of Jerome Kern's songs into a superbly orchestrated sequence of melodies which was recorded in 1960 by William Steinberg and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. The numbers are: "They Didn't Believe Me"; "Babes in the Wood"; "The Siren's Song"; "Left All Alone Again Blues"; Wild Rose"; "Who Stole My Heart Away"; "Ol' Man River"; "The Song is You"; "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"; and "All the Things You Are". (Everest EVC 9027).
" The Way You Look Tonight " written by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields performed on the Hohner Chromonica 280 by Gary Griffith and used as the backdrop for a tribute to my favorite Hollywood actresses from the 1930's to the 1960's.