Reading Lyrics: More Than 1,000 of the Twentieth Century's Finest Song Lyrics
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A comprehensive anthology bringing together more than one thousand of the best American and English song lyrics of the twentieth century; an extraordinary celebration of a unique art form and an indispensable reference work and history that celebrates one of the twentieth century’s most enduring and cherished legacies. Reading Lyrics begins with the first masters of the colloquial phrase, including George M. Cohan (“Give My Regards to Broadway”), P. G. Wodehouse (“Till the Clouds Roll By”), and Irving Berlin, whose versatility and career span the period from “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” to “Annie Get Your Gun” and beyond. The Broadway musical emerges as a distinct dramatic form in the 1920s and 1930s, its evolution propelled by a trio of lyricists—Cole Porter, Ira Gershwin, and Lorenz Hart—whose explorations of the psychological and emotional nuances of falling in and out of love have lost none of their wit and sophistication. Their songs, including “Night and Day,” “The Man I Love,” and “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered,” have become standards performed and recorded by generation after generation of singers. The lure of Broadway and Hollywood and the performing genius of such artists as Al Jolson, Fred Astaire, Ethel Waters, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, and Ethel Merman inspired a remarkable array of talented writers, including Dorothy Fields (“A Fine Romance,” “I Can’t Give You Anything but Love”), Frank Loesser (“Guys and Dolls”), Oscar Hammerstein II (from the groundbreaking “Show Boat” of 1927 through his extraordinary collaboration with Richard Rodgers), Johnny Mercer, Yip Harburg, Andy Razaf, Noël Coward, and Stephen Sondheim. Reading Lyrics also celebrates the work of dozens of superb craftsmen whose songs remain known, but who today are themselves less known—writers like Haven Gillespie (whose “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” may be the most widely recorded song of its era); Herman Hupfeld (not only the composer/lyricist of “As Time Goes By” but also of “Are You Makin’ Any Money?” and “When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba”); the great light versifier Ogden Nash (“Speak Low,” “I’m a Stranger Here Myself,” and, yes, “The Sea-Gull and the Ea-Gull”); Don Raye (“Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,” “Mister Five by Five,” and, of course, “Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet”); Bobby Troup (“Route 66”); Billy Strayhorn (not only for the omnipresent “Lush Life” but for “Something to Live For” and “A Lonely Coed”); Peggy Lee (not only a superb singer but also an original and appealing lyricist); and the unique Dave Frishberg (“I’m Hip,” “Peel Me a Grape,” “Van Lingo Mungo”). The lyricists are presented chronologically, each introduced by a succinct biography and the incisive commentary of Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball.

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736
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2000-11-21
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ISBN 10

0375400818
About The Author

ROBERT GOTTLIEB is the former Editor-in-Chief of Alfred A. Knopf and of The New Yorker. He is the dance critic for the New York Observer and author of George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker. He has previously edited Reading Jazz, Reading Lyrics (with Robert Kimball), the Everyman's Library edition of The Collected Stories of Rudyard Kipling, and The Journals of John Cheever. ROBERT KIMBALL is the editor of The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter, The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin, and The Complete Lyrics of Lorenz Hart and is the co-editor of The Complete Lyrics of Irving Berlin.

“With around 170 lyricists on offer, the book makes its share of worthwhile rediscoveries . . . That’s the fun of Reading Lyrics. Readers can hum along with songs they know, while songs they don’t will have them hurrying off to the nearest music megastore.” —The New York Times Book Review “Reading Lyrics defies literary categorization. It’s reference work. It’s a singalong book. It’s a shadow history of taste and mores over much of the past century. It’s a valentine to a now-vanished artistic craft. And it’s an act of fond provocation.”—The Boston Globe “This wondrous and magical concoction is highly recommended.”—The Wall Street Journal“Both a groundbreaking social document and its own pleasure dome. Its 706 pages confirm the accomplishments of the greats, but they also provide surprises.” —The New Yorker “Sparklingly entertaining, Reading Lyrics exalts the lyrical sublimity of such cunning wordsmiths as Porter, Gershwin, and Coward.” —Vanity Fair“This music is an amazing art form; it’s a substantial cultural phenomenon.”—Newsweek “What joy! No sooner do the lyrics appear before one’s eyes than reading gives way to song.” —Billboard Magazine“One of the finest collections of words there is. To quote P.G. Wodehouse, ‘And I wish someday I could find my way/To the land where the good songs go.’ That land is Reading Lyrics. ‘S wonderful.”—Newsday
Table Of Content

Introduction xxiii   Anne Caldwell (1867–1936) I Know That You Know 3 Left All Alone Again Blues 3 Raggedy Ann 4   Otto Harbach (1873–1963) Let’s Begin 6 The Love Nest 7 Poor Pierrot 7 She Didn’t Say “Yes” 8 Smoke Gets in Your Eyes 8 Yesterdays 9   George M. Cohan (1878–1942) Down by the Erie Canal 10 Forty-five Minutes from Broadway 10 Give My Regards to Broadway 11 I Want to Hear a Yankee Doodle Tune 11 If I’m Going to Die I’m Going to Have Some Fun 12 If Washington Should Come to Life 13 I’m Mighty Glad I’m Living and That’s All 14 Life’s a Funny Proposition After All 15 Mary’s a Grand Old Name 15 Nothing New Beneath the Sun 16 Over There 17 So Long, Mary 18 Twentieth-Century Love 18 When a Fellow’s on the Level with a Girl That’s on the Square 19 The Yankee Doodle Boy 19 You’re a Grand Old Flag 20   Henry Creamer (1879–1930) After You’ve Gone 21 If I Could Be with You 21 ’Way Down Yonder in New Orleans 22   P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) Bill (Original Version) 23 (Show Boat Version) 24 Bungalow in Quogue 24 Cleopatterer 25 It’s a Hard, Hard World for a Man 26 The Land Where the Good Songs Go 27 Napoleon 27 That Was Before I Met You 28 Till the Clouds Roll By 29 Tulip Time in Sing Sing 29 You Can’t Make Love by Wireless 30 You Never Knew About Me 31   Cecil Mack (1884–1944) Charleston 32 He’s a Cousin of Mine 33 That’s Why They Call Me “Shine” 33   Bert Kalmar (1884–1947) and Harry Ruby (1895–1974) Give Me the Simple Life 35 Nevertheless (I’m in Love with You) 36 Three Little Words 36 What a Perfect Combination 37 Who’s Sorry Now? 37   Joseph McCarthy (1885–1943) Alice Blue Gown 39 I’m Always Chasing Rainbows 39 You Made Me Love You (I Didn’t Want to Do It) 40   Sam M. Lewis (1885–1959) and Joe Young (1889–1939) Dinah 41 Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue (Has Anybody Seen My Girl?) 42 For All We Know 42 How ’Ya Gonna Keep ’Em Down on the Farm? (After They’ve Seen Paree) 43 I Wonder Why She Kept on Saying “Si-Si-Si-Si-Senor” 43 I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter 44 I’m Sitting on Top of the World 44 Just Friends 45 Life Is a Song, Let’s Sing It Together 45 Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody 46 Street of Dreams 46 Was That the Human Thing to Do? 47 You’re Gonna Lose Your Gal 48   Edgar Leslie (1885–1976) Among My Souvenirs 49 For Me and My Gal 49 Kansas City Kitty 50 A Little Bit Independent 51  T’ain’t No Sin to Dance Around in Your Bones 51   Shelton Brooks (1886–1975) The Darktown Strutters’ Ball 52 (That’s the Way) Dixieland Started Jazz 53 Some of These Days 53 Walkin’ the Dog 54   Gus Kahn (1886–1941) Ain’t We Got Fun 55 All God’s Chillun Got Rhythm 57 Carolina in the Morning 57 Guilty 58 I’ll See You in My Dreams 58 I’m Through with Love 58 It Had to Be You 59 Love Me or Leave Me 60 Makin’ Whoopee 60 My Baby Just Cares for Me 61 No, No, Nora 61 Okay, Toots 62 The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else) 62 Pretty Baby 63 Tomorrow Is Another Day 63 Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Good-Bye) 64 When My Ship Comes In 64 Yes, Sir! That’s My Baby 65 You Stepped Out of a Dream 66   Clifford Grey (1887–1941) Hallelujah! 67 If You Were the Only Girl in the World 67 Spread a Little Happiness 68   Haven Gillespie (1888–1975) Breezin’ Along with the Breeze 69 Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town 69 That Lucky Old Sun 70 You Go to My Head 70   Irving Berlin (1888–1989) Alexander’s Ragtime Band 72 Always 73 Blue Skies 73 Change Partners 74 Cheek to Cheek 74 A Couple of Swells 75 Easter Parade 75 Fools Fall in Love 76 Heat Wave 76 How Deep Is the Ocean? 77 I Got Lost in His Arms 77 I Got the Sun in the Morning 77 Isn’t This a Lovely Day (To Be Caught in the Rain?) 78 It’s a Lovely Day Today 79 I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm 79 Let Me Sing and I’m Happy 79 Let’s Face the Music and Dance 79 Let’s Have Another Cup of Coffee 80 The Little Things in Life 80 Manhattan Madness 81 Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning 81 Pack Up Your Sins and Go to the Devil 82 A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody 83 Puttin’ on the Ritz (Original and Revised Versions) 83 Remember 84 Say It Isn’t So 84 The Song Is Ended (But the Melody Lingers On) 85 Supper Time 85 There’s No Business Like Show Business 86 They Say It’s Wonderful 87 This Is the Army, Mr. Jones 87 Top Hat, White Tie, and Tails 88 What’ll I Do? 88 When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam’ 89 White Christmas 89 You Can’t Get a Man with a Gun 89 You’d Be Surprised 90 You’re Just in Love 91 You’re Laughing at Me 91   Maxwell Anderson (1888–1959) It Never Was You 93 Lost in the Stars 94 September Song 94   Noble Sissle (1889–1975) Baltimore Buzz 95 I’m Craving for That Kind of Love 95 I’m Just Wild About Harry 96   Grant Clarke (1891–1931) Am I Blue? 97 Everything Is Peaches Down in Georgia 98 Ragtime Cowboy Joe 98 Second Hand Rose 99   Cole Porter (1891–1964) All of You 100 Always True to You in My Fashion 100 Anything Goes 102 At Long Last Love 103 Begin the Beguine 103 Brush Up Your Shakespeare 104 Down in the Depths 105 Ev’ry Time We Say Good-bye 106 Friendship 106 From This Moment On 107 Get Out of Town 108 I Concentrate on You 108 I Get a Kick Out of You 108 I’m a Gigolo 109 In the Still of the Night 109 It’s All Right with Me 110 It’s De-Lovely 110 I’ve Got You Under My Skin 111 Just One of Those Things 112 Katie Went to Haiti 112 The Laziest Gal in Town 113 Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall in Love 113 Let’s Not Talk About Love 115 Love for Sale 117 Miss Otis Regrets 117 My Heart Belongs to Daddy 118 Night and Day 118 Red, Hot and Blue 119 Ridin’ High 119 So in Love 121 The Tale of the Oyster 121 They Couldn’t Compare to You 121 Too Darn Hot 123 What Is This Thing Called Love? 124 Where Is the Life That Late I Led? 124 You Don’t Know Paree 125 You’re the Top 125   Al Dubin (1891–1945) A Cup of Coffee, a Sandwich, and You 128 Dames 128 Forty-second Street 129 The Gold Diggers’ Song (We’re in the Money) 129 I Only Have Eyes for You 130 I’ll String Along with You 130 Lullaby of Broadway 130 Lulu’s Back in Town 131 Remember Me? 131 September in the Rain 132 She’s a Latin from Manhattan 132 Shuffle Off to Buffalo 133 Young and Healthy 133 You’re Getting to Be a Habit with Me 134   Clarence Gaskill (1892–1948) I Can’t Believe That You’re in Love with Me 135 Minnie, the Moocher 135 Prisoner of Love 137 Mort Dixon (1892–1956) Bye Bye Blackbird 138 A Great Big Bunch of You 139 I Found a Million Dollar Baby (In a Five and Ten Cent Store) 139 The Lady in Red 139 Nagasaki 140 River, Stay ’Way from My Door 141 Would You Like to Take a Walk? 142   Jack Yellen (1892–1991) Ain’t She Sweet? 143 Are You Havin’ Any Fun? 144 Glad Rag Doll 144 Happy Days Are Here Again 145 Hard-Hearted Hannah (The Vamp of Savannah) 145 Louisville Lou (The Vampin’ Lady) 146 Mamma Goes Where Papa Goes 147   Roy Turk (1892–1934) Ain’t That the Way It Goes? 148 Are You Lonesome Tonight? 149 Gimme a Little Kiss (Will Ya, Huh?) 149 I Don’t Know Why (I Just Do) 150 I’ll Get By (As Long As I Have You) 151 Mean to Me 151 Walkin’ My Baby Back Home 152   Walter Donaldson (1893–1947) Because My Baby Don’t Mean Maybe Now 153 Little White Lies 154 You’re Driving Me Crazy (What Did I Do?) 154   Herman Hupfeld (1894–1951) Are You Makin’ Any Money? 156 As Time Goes By 156 Let’s Put Out the Lights and Go to Sleep 157 When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba 157   Ted Koehler (1894–1973) As Long As I Live 159 Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea 160 Don’t Worry ’Bout Me 160 Good for Nothin’ Joe 160 Happy As the Day Is Long 161 I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues 161 I’ve Got the World on a String 162 Ill Wind 162 Let’s Fall in Love 163 Sing, My Heart 163 Spreadin’ Rhythm Around 164 Stop! You’re Breakin’ My Heart 164 Stormy Weather 165 Tess’s Torch Song (I Had a Man) 165Truckin’ 166 When the Sun Comes Out 166 Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams 166   Arthur Freed (1894–1973) All I Do Is Dream of You 168 Broadway Melody 169 Fit As a Fiddle 169 Good Morning 170 I Cried for You 170 I’ve Got a Feelin’ You’re Foolin’ 170 Singin’ in the Rain 171 This Heart of Mine 171 You Were Meant for Me 172   B. G. (Buddy) DeSylva (1895–1950), Lew Brown (1893–1958), and Ray Henderson (1896–1970) April Showers 174 The Best Things in Life Are Free 174 The Birth of the Blues 174 (Here Am I) Broken Hearted 175 Button Up Your Overcoat 175 California, Here I Come 176 Do It Again 177 Don’t Bring Lulu 177 I Want to Be Bad 178 I’ll Say She Does 178 If I Had a Talking Picture of You 179 If You Knew Susie (Like I Know Susie) 179 It All Depends on You 180 Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries 180 Look for the Silver Lining 181 Magnolia 181 Maybe This Is Love 182 Never Swat a Fly 182 Somebody Loves Me 183 Straw Hat in the Rain 184 Sunny Side Up 184 Thank Your Father 184 That Old Feeling 185 Turn On the Heat 185 The Varsity Drag 186 You’re an Old Smoothie 186 You’re the Cream in My Coffee 187   Leo Robin (1895–1984) Beyond the Blue Horizon 188 Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend 189 Easy Living 189 For Every Man There’s a Woman 189 Hooray for Love 190 In Love in Vain 190 Little Girl from Little Rock 191 Louise 191 Love Is Just Around the Corner 192 My Cutey’s Due at Two-to-Two Today 193 My Ideal 193 No Love, No Nothin’ 194 Thanks for the Memory 194   Lorenz Hart (1895–1943) Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered 196 Blue Moon 198 The Blue Room 198 Dancing on the Ceiling 199 Falling in Love with Love 199 Glad to Be Unhappy 200 Have You Met Miss Jones? 200 He Was Too Good to Me 200 I Didn’t Know What Time It Was 201 I Wish I Were in Love Again 201 It Never Entered My Mind 202 It’s Got to Be Love 203 I’ve Got Five Dollars 203 Johnny One-Note 204 The Lady Is a Tramp 205 Little Girl Blue 206 Manhattan 206 The Most Beautiful Girl in the World 207 Mountain Greenery 208 My Funny Valentine 208 My Heart Stood Still 209 My Romance 209 Nobody’s Heart 210 A Ship Without a Sail 210 Spring Is Here 211 Ten Cents a Dance 211 There’s a Small Hotel 212 This Can’t Be Love 212 This Funny World 213 Thou Swell 213 To Keep My Love Alive 214 Wait Till You See Her 215 Where or When 216 With a Song in My Heart 216 You Are Too Beautiful 217 You Took Advantage of Me 217 Zip 218   Irving Caesar (1895–1996) Animal Crackers in My Soup 219 Crazy Rhythm 219 I Want to Be Happy 220 Is It True What They Say About Dixie? 221 Just a Gigolo 221 Sometimes I’m Happy 222 Spanish Jake 222 Tea for Two 223 Too Many Rings Around Rosie 223   Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960) All er Nothin’ 225 All the Things You Are 226 Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man 227 Dat’s Love (Habanera) 227 Don’t Ever Leave Me 228 The Folks Who Live on the Hill 228 The Gentleman Is a Dope 229 Happy Talk 229 Hello, Young Lovers 230 I Cain’t Say No 231 I’ll Take Romance 231 If I Loved You 232 It Might As Well Be Spring 232 I’ve Told Ev’ry Little Star 233 June Is Bustin’ Out All Over 233 The Last Time I Saw Paris 234 Lover, Come Back to Me! 234 Make Believe 235 Many a New Day 235 Mister Snow 236 My Favorite Things 237 Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’! 237 Ol’ Man River 237 People Will Say We’re in Love 238 Shall We Dance? 239 Soliloquy 239 Some Enchanted Evening 241 The Song Is You 241 The Sound of Music 242 The Surrey with the Fringe on Top 242 There Is Nothin’ Like a Dame 243 Who? 244 Why Was I Born? 245 A Wonderful Guy 245 You’ll Never Walk Alone 246 Younger Than Springtime 246   Andy Razaf (1895–1973) Ain’t Misbehavin’ 247 Black and Blue (What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue?) 248 Guess Who’s in Town? (Nobody but That Gal of Mine) 249 Honeysuckle Rose 250 I’d Give a Dollar for a Dime 250 The Joint Is Jumpin’ 250 Keepin’ Out of Mischief Now 251 Memories of You 251 My Handy Man 252 My Handy Man Ain’t Handy No More 252 My Man o’War 253 My Special Friend (Is Back in Town) 254 A Porter’s Love Song to a Chambermaid 255 S’posin’ 255 Stompin’ at the Savoy 256 Tan Manhattan 256 You’re Lucky to Me 257   E. Y. Harburg (1896–1981) April in Paris 258 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? 259 Down with Love 259 The Eagle and Me 260 Fun to Be Fooled 260 Happiness Is Just a Thing Called Joe 261 How Are Things in Glocca Morra? 261 I Like the Likes of You 262 If I Only Had a Brain (If I Only Had a Heart) (If I Only Had the Nerve) 262 If This Isn’t Love 264 It’s Only a Paper Moon 264 Last Night When We Were Young 265 Let’s Take a Walk Around the Block 265 Lydia, the Tattooed Lady 266 Moon About Town 267 Necessity 268 Old Devil Moon 268 Over the Rainbow 269 The Springtime Cometh 269 Then I’ll Be Tired of You 270 We’re Off to See the Wizard (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) 270 What Is There to Say? 270 When I’m Not Near the Girl I Love 271   Paul James (1896–1969) Can This Be Love? 272 Can’t We Be Friends? 272 Fine and Dandy 273   Howard Dietz (1896–1983) Alone Together 274 Blue Grass 275 Dancing in the Dark 275 Haunted Heart 276 I Guess I’ll Have to Change My Plan 276 I See Your Face Before Me 277 If There Is Someone Lovelier Than You 277 Rhode Island Is Famous for You 277 Something to Remember You By 278 That’s Entertainment 279 Triplets 280 You and the Night and the Music 281   Harry Woods (1896–1970) Over My Shoulder 282 Paddlin’ Madelin’ Home 282 Side by Side 283 Try a Little Tenderness 284 We Just Couldn’t Say Good-bye 284 When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin’ Along 284   Ira Gershwin (1896–1983) The Babbitt and the Bromide 285 Bidin’ My Time 286 Blah, Blah, Blah 287 But Not for Me 287 Do, Do, Do 288 Embraceable You 289 Fascinating Rhythm 290 A Foggy Day (In London Town) 291 How Long Has This Been Going On? 291 I Can’t Get Started 292 I Got Plenty o’ Nuthin’ 293 I Got Rhythm 294 Isn’t It a Pity? 294 It Ain’t Necessarily So 296 Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off 296 Long Ago (And Far Away) 297 Love Is Here to Stay 297 Love Is Sweeping the Country 298 The Man I Love 298 The Man That Got Away 299 My Ship 299 Nice Work If You Can Get It 300 Of Thee I Sing 300 Oh, Lady, Be Good! 300 One Life to Live 301 The Saga of Jenny 301 Someone to Watch over Me 303 Strike Up the Band 303 Sunny Disposish 304 ’S Wonderful 304 Tchaikowsky (And Other Russians) 305 They All Laughed 306 They Can’t Take That Away from Me 306 Things Are Looking Up 307 Who Cares? 307   Mann Holiner (1897–1958) Until the Real Thing Comes Along 308 Why Shouldn’t It Happen to Us? 309 You Can’t Stop Me from Lovin’ You 309   Noel Gay (1898–1954) Lambeth Walk 311 Leaning on a Lamppost 311 Me and My Girl 312   Hoagy Carmichael (1899–1981) Don’t Forget to Say No, Baby 313 Hong Kong Blues 314 I Get Along Without You Very Well 314 Lazy River 314 Rockin’ Chair 315   Noël Coward (1899–1973) A Bar on the Piccola Marina 316 Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans 317 I’ve Been to a Marvelous Party 319 I Wonder What Happened to Him 320 I’ll See You Again 321 Let’s Do It 322 London Pride 323 Mad About the Boy 324 Mad Dogs and Englishmen 327 Mrs. Worthington 328 Never Again 329 Nina 329 Poor Little Rich Girl 331 Sail Away 331 (I’m So) Weary of It All 332 Why Must the Show Go On? 333   Mitchell Parish (1900–1993) Deep Purple 335 Sophisticated Lady 336 Star Dust 336 Stars Fell on Alabama 336 Sweet Lorraine 337   Kim Gannon (1900–1974) A Dreamer’s Holiday 338 Moonlight Cocktail 338 Reciprocity 339   Edward Eliscu (1901–1998) Flying Down to Rio 340 Great Day 340 More Than You Know 341 Without a Song 341   Eric Maschwitz (1901–1969) A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square 343 Paris Is Not the Same 344 These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) 344   Ned Washington (1901–1976) Give Me a Heart to Sing To 346 A Hundred Years from Today 346 Love Is the Thing 347 My Foolish Heart 347 The Nearness of You 348 A Woman’s Intuition 348   Meredith Willson (1902–1984) Seventy-six Trombones 349 Till There Was You 350 Ya Got Trouble 350   Ogden Nash (1902–1971) I’m a Stranger Here Myself 352 Round About 353 The Sea-Gull and the Ea-Gull 354 Speak Low 354 Sweet Bye and Bye 354   Sam Coslow (1902–1983) Cocktails for Two 356 (I’m in Love With) The Honorable Mr. So and So 356 It’s Love Again 357 My Old Flame 357 (Up on Top of a Rainbow) Sweepin’ the Clouds Away 358 True Blue Lou 358   Irving Kahal (1903–1942) I Can Dream, Can’t I? 359 I’ll Be Seeing You 359 The Night Is Young and You’re So Beautiful 360 Wedding Bells Are Breaking Up That Old Gang of Mine 360 When I Take My Sugar to Tea 361   Ray Noble (1903–1978) Good Night, Sweetheart 362 I Hadn’t Anyone Till You 363 The Touch of Your Lips 363 The Very Thought of You 363   Eddie DeLange (1904–1949) Darn That Dream 365 Shake Down the Stars 365 Solitude 366   Mack Gordon (1904–1959) Chattanooga Choo-Choo 367 Head over Heels in Love 368 I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much) 368 I’ve Got a Gal in Kalamazoo 369 Love Thy Neighbor 369 Mam’selle 369 Meet the Beat of My Heart 370 Serenade in Blue 370 There Will Never Be Another You 371 There’s a Lull in My Life 371 You Hit the Spot 371 You Make Me Feel So Young 372   Allan Roberts (1905–1966) and Doris Fisher (1915– ) Put the Blame on Mame 373 That Old Devil Called Love 374 Tired 374   Dorothy Fields (1905–1974) Blue Again 376 Bojangles of Harlem 377 Don’t Blame Me 377 A Fine Romance 378 Have Feet, Will Dance 378 I Can’t Give You Anything but Love 379 I Won’t Dance 379 I’m in the Mood for Love 380 I’m Livin’ in a Great Big Way 380 It’s All Yours 381 Lovely to Look At 381 Make the Man Love Me 382 Never Gonna Dance 382 On the Sunny Side of the Street 382 Pick Yourself Up 383 Remind Me 383 There Must Be Somethin’ Better Than Love 384 The Way You Look Tonight 385 You Couldn’t Be Cuter 385   Herb Magidson (1906–1986) The Continental (You Kiss While You’re Dancing) 386 Gone with the Wind 387 (I’m Afraid) The Masquerade Is Over 387 Music, Maestro, Please! 387 T’ain’t No Use 388   Harold Adamson (1906–1980) Everything I Have Is Yours 389 I Just Found Out About Love 389 It’s a Most Unusual Day 390 It’s Been So Long 390 Make with the Feet 391 Time on My Hands 391 Where Are You? 391   Alec Wilder (1907–1980) Did You Ever Cross over to Sneden’s 393 I’ll Be Around 394 It’s So Peaceful in the Country 394 Trouble Is a Man 394   Edward Heyman (1907–1981) Blame It on My Youth 396 Body and Soul 396 Easy Come, Easy Go 397 Ho Hum 397 I Cover the Waterfront 398 I Wanna Be Loved 398 When I Fall in Love 399 You’re Mine, You! 399   Ralph Freed (1907–1973) Babes on Broadway 401 How About You 401 You Leave Me Breathless 402   Paul Francis Webster (1907–1984) Baltimore Oriole 403 Black Coffee 404 Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief 404 I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good 405 Jump for Joy 405 Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing 406 Secret Love 406 Two Cigarettes in the Dark 406   Harold Rome (1908–1993) Call Me Mister 407 Chain Store Daisy 408 Doing the Reactionary 409 Don’t Wanna Write About the South 409 F.D.R. Jones 409 The Military Life 410 The Money Song 411 (All of a Sudden) My Heart Sings 413 Nobody Makes a Pass at Me 413 Ring on the Finger 414 South America, Take It Away! 415 Who Knows? 416 Wish You Were Here 416   Johnny Burke (1908–1964) Ain’t It a Shame About Mame 418 But Beautiful 419 Good Time Charlie 419 Here’s That Rainy Day 420 Imagination 420 It Could Happen to You 420 I’ve Got a Pocketful of Dreams 421 Like Someone in Love 421 Misty 421 Moonlight Becomes You 422 My Heart Is a Hobo 422 Pennies from Heaven 422 Personality 423 Polka Dots and Moonbeams 423 The Road to Morocco 424 Sleigh Ride in July 424 Swinging on a Star 425 Welcome to My Dream 425 You May Not Love Me 426   Don Raye (1909–1985) Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy 427 I’ll Remember April 428 Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet! 428 Mister Five by Five 429 You Don’t Know What Love Is 429   Don George (1909–1985) I Ain’t Got Nothin’ but the Blues 430 I’m Beginning to See the Light 430 It Shouldn’t Happen to a Dream 430 It’s Kind of Lonesome Out Tonight 431 Tulip or Turnip 431   George Marion, Jr. (1909–1968) The Ladies Who Sing with a Band 432 Love Is a Random Thing 432 My Future Just Passed 433 There’s a Man in My Life 434   Johnny Mercer (1909–1976) Accentuate the Positive 435 Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing in a Hurry 436 Blues in the Night 436 Come Rain or Come Shine 437 Day In—Day Out 437 Early Autumn 437 Glow-Worm 438 Hooray for Hollywood 438 How Little We Know 439 I Remember You 439 I Thought About You 439 I Wonder What Became of Me 440 I’m Old-Fashioned 440 Jeepers Creepers 440 Laura 441 Midnight Sun 441 Moon River 441 My Shining Hour 442 On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe 442 One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) 442 Out of This World 443 P.S. I Love You 443 Satin Doll 444 Skylark 444 Something’s Gotta Give 444 Tangerine 445 That Old Black Magic 445 Too Marvelous for Words 445 You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby 446 You Were Never Lovelier 446   Frank Loesser (1910–1969) Adelaide’s Lament 447 Baby, It’s Cold Outside 448 The Boys in the Backroom 449 Fugue for Tinhorns 449 Guys and Dolls 450 I Believe in You 451 I Don’t Want to Walk Without You 452 I Hear Music 452 I Wish I Didn’t Love You So 452 If I Were a Bell 453 The Lady’s in Love with You 453 Luck Be a Lady Tonight 454 Make a Miracle 454 Murder, He Says 456 My Darling, My Darling 457 Once in Love with Amy 457 Sand in My Shoes 458 Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat 458 Somebody, Somewhere 459 Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year 459 Take Back Your Mink 460 They’re Either Too Young or Too Old 460 Two Sleepy People 461   Bobby Troup (1910–1999) Baby, Baby All the Time 462 Daddy 463 (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66! 463 You’re in Love 463 You’re Lookin’ at Me 464   Mack David (1912–1993) Candy 465 I’m Just a Lucky So-and-So 465 A Sinner Kissed an Angel 466 Sunflower 466   Jack Lawrence (1912– ) All or Nothing at All 468 Foolin’ Myself 468 Linda 469 The Other Half of Me 469 Sleepy Lagoon 469 Tenderly 470 What’s Your Story, Morning Glory 470   Tom Adair (1913–1988) Everything Happens to Me 471 Let’s Get Away from It All 471 The Night We Called It a Day 472 Violets for Your Furs 472 Will You Still Be Mine? 473   Sammy Cahn (1913–1993) All the Way 474 Call Me Irresponsible 475 Come Fly with Me 475 Day by Day 475 Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out to Dry 476 I Fall in Love Too Easily 476 I Should Care 476 I’ll Walk Alone 477 It’s Magic 477 Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! 478 Love and Marriage 478 Put ’Em in a Box, Tie ’Em with a Ribbon (And Throw ’Em in the Deep Blue Sea) 478 The Second Time Around 479 Teach Me Tonight 479 (Love Is) The Tender Trap 479 The Things We Did Last Summer 480 Time After Time 480   William Engvick (1914– ) Crazy in the Heart 482 While We’re Young 482 Who Can I Turn To? 483 Hugh Martin (1914– ) and Ralph Blane (1914–1995) An Occasional Man 484 Ev’ry Time 485 Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas 485 I Never Felt Better 486 Love 487 Spring Isn’t Everything 488 That Face 488 The Trolley Song 489   Robert Wright (1914– ) and George Forrest (1915–1999) And This Is My Beloved 490 Baubles, Bangles, and Beads 491 It’s a Blue World 491 Strange Music 491 Stranger in Paradise 491   Irving Gordon (1915–1996) Be Anything (But Be Mine) 493 Prelude to a Kiss 493 Unforgettable 493   Jay Livingston (1915–2001) and Ray Evans (1915– ) Buttons and Bows 495 Femininity 496 Haven’t Got a Worry 496 Keep It Simple 497 Mona Lisa 497 Never Let Me Go 497 To Each His Own 497 Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera) 498   Bob Russell (1915–1970) Ballerina 499 Crazy She Calls Me 499 Don’t Get Around Much Anymore 500 I Didn’t Know About You 500 You Came a Long Way from St. Louis 500   Bart Howard (1915– ) Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words) 502 Who Besides You 502 Would You Believe It? 503 Year After Year 503   Billy Strayhorn (1915–1967) A Lonely Coed 504 Lush Life 504 Something to Live For 505   Betty Comden (1917– ) and Adolph Green (1915– ) Adventure 506 All of My Life 508 Conga 508 I Can Cook, Too 509 If You Hadn’t—But You Did 510 Just in Time 511 A Little Bit in Love 511 Lonely Town 512 Lucky to Be Me 512 Make Someone Happy 513 New York, New York 513 Not Mine 514 The Party’s Over 514 Some Other Time 515 Thanks a Lot, but No Thanks 515 You Mustn’t Feel Discouraged 516   John Latouche (1917–1956) Cabin in the Sky 517 Honey in the Honeycomb 518 Lazy Afternoon 518 Love Turned the Light Out 519 Maybe I Should Change My Ways 519 Not a Care in the World 519 Summer Is a-Comin’ In 520 Taking a Chance on Love 521   Bob Hilliard (1918–1971) Civilization (Bongo, Bongo, Bongo) 523 The Coffee Song (They’ve Got an Awful Lot of Coffee in Brazil) 524 In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning 525   Alan Jay Lerner (1918–1986) Almost Like Being in Love 526 Camelot 527 Come Back to Me 527 The Heather on the Hill 528 A Hymn to Him 529 I Could Have Danced All Night 530 I Left My Hat in Haiti 530 I Remember It Well 530 If Ever I Would Leave You 531 I’m Glad I’m Not Young Any More 531 I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face 532 On a Clear Day You Can See Forever 533 On the Street Where You Live 533 Paris Is Paris Again 534 The Rain in Spain 534 Wouldn’t It Be Luverly? 535   Jack Segal (1918– ) I Keep Going Back to Joe’s 536 Nothing Ever Changes My Love for You 536 When Sunny Gets Blue 537 Wind in the Willow 537   Ervin Drake (1919– ) The Friendliest Thing (Two People Can Do) 538 It Was a Very Good Year 538 Just for Today 539   Bob Merrill (1920–1998) Don’t Rain on My Parade 540 Music That Makes Me Dance 541 People 541 Staying Young 541   Peggy Lee (1920– ) I Don’t Know Enough About You 543 I Love Being Here with You 543 I’m Gonna Go Fishin’ 544 It’s a Good Day 545 Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me) 545 That’s My Style 546   George David Weiss (1921– ) Lullaby of Birdland 547 Oh! What It Seemed to Be 547 Too Close for Comfort 548   Richard Adler (1921– ) and Jerry Ross (1926–1955) Heart 549 Hernando’s Hideaway 550 Hey There 550 There Once Was a Man 550 Whatever Lola Wants (Lola Gets) 551   Joseph McCarthy, Jr. (1922–1975) Cloudy Morning 552 I’m Gonna Laugh You Right Out of My Life 552 The Riviera 552 Why Try to Change Me Now? 553   Marshall Barer (1923–1998) Beyond Compare 554 Here Come the Dreamers 554 On Such a Night As This 555 Shall We Join the Ladies? 555 Very Soft Shoes 556   Sandy Wilson (1924– ) The Boy Friend 558 It’s Never Too Late to Fall in Love 559 A Room in Bloomsbury 559   Lee Adams (1924– ) But Alive 561 Kids! 561 Once Upon a Time 562 Put on a Happy Face 562 Those Were the Days 563   Sheldon Harnick (1924– ) The Boston Beguine 564 If I Were a Rich Man 565 Little Tin Box 566 Matchmaker 567 (The Ballad of) The Shape of Things 567 She Loves Me 568 Someone’s Been Sending Me Flowers 569 Sunrise, Sunset 569 Tonight at Eight 570 (I’ll Marry) The Very Next Man 571   Alan Bergman (1925– ) and Marilyn Bergman (1929– ) Summer Me, Winter Me 572 The Way We Were 572 The Windmills of Your Mind 573 You Must Believe in Spring 573   Carolyn Leigh (1926–1983) The Best Is Yet to Come 575 Hey, Look Me Over 576 How Little We Know (How Little It Matters) 576 I Walk a Little Faster 576 It Amazes Me! 577 I’ve Got Your Number 577 Real Live Girl 578 The Rules of the Road 578 When in Rome (I Do As the Romans Do) 579 Witchcraft 579 You Fascinate Me So 580 Young at Heart 580   Fran Landesman (1927– ) The Ballad of the Sad Young Men 581 Photographs 582 Say “Cheese!” 582 Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most 583   Gene Lees (1928– ) Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado) 584 The Right to Love 584 Waltz for Debby 585   Stephen Sondheim (1930– ) All I Need Is the Girl 586 America 587 Another Hundred People 587 Comedy Tonight 588 Everybody Says Don’t 589 Everything’s Coming Up Roses 590 Gee, Officer Krupke 590 I Never Do Anything Twice (Madam’s Song) 592 I’m Still Here 593 In Buddy’s Eyes 594 The Ladies Who Lunch 594 Losing My Mind 595 Remember? 595 Send in the Clowns 596 Some People 596 Somewhere 597 Together Wherever We Go 597   Lionel Bart (1930–1998) As Long As He Needs Me 599 Fings Ain’t Wot They Used t’Be 599 Reviewing the Situation 600   Leslie Bricusse (1931– ) The Candy Man 602 Goldfinger 603 What Kind of Fool Am I? 603 Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me?) 603   Jerry Herman (1931– ) Before the Parade Passes By 605 Hello, Dolly! 605 I Won’t Send Roses 606 If He Walked into My Life 606 Mame 607 Tap Your Troubles Away 607 Time Heals Everything 608   Fred Ebb (1932– ) And All That Jazz 609 Cabaret 610 Class 610 The Happy Time 611 My Coloring Book 611 Nowadays 612 A Quiet Thing 612   Dave Frishberg (1933– ) Another Song About Paris 613 I’m Hip 614 Peel Me a Grape 615 Van Lingle Mungo 615   Richard Maltby, Jr. (1937– ) I Don’t Remember Christmas 616 A Little Bit Off 617 Today Is the First Day of the Rest of My Life 617   Coda (1909) By the Light of the Silvery Moon / Edward Madden 619 (1909) I’ve Got Rings on My Fingers / R. P. Weston and F. J. Barnes 619 (1910) Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl / Edgar Smith 620 (1910) Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey / Junie McCree 621 (1912) My Melancholy Baby / George Norton 621 (1912) Row, Row, Row / William Jerome 622
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Irving Berlin (1888–1989)   He is American music,” said Jerome Kern of this extraordinary man who, unlike most of his major colleagues, came from a poor immigrant family and had little formal education, yet he went on to the most all-encompassing and triumphant career in American popular music. Irving Berlin (born Israel Baline) began as a singing waiter on New York’s Lower East Side, graduated to song-plugger, and in 1907, when he was nineteen, had his first song published—“Marie from Sunny Italy.” “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” made him a worldwide figure in 1911, and his career never faltered. As composer and lyricist (although he famously could not read music) he produced three of America’s anthems—“God Bless America,” “White Christmas,” and “Easter Parade”—as well as “Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning” for World War I and “This Is the Army, Mr. Jones” for World War II. His Broadway shows included Face the Music, As Thousands Cheer, Louisiana Purchase, Annie Get Your Gun, and Call Me Madam. Among the many films he provided songs for were three for Astaire and Rogers—Top Hat, Follow the Fleet, and Carefree—as well as On the Avenue, Alexander’s Ragtime Band, Holiday Inn, White Christmas, Easter Parade, Blue Skies, and There’s No Business Like Show Business. And, of course, he had countless pop hits unconnected to shows or movies. A hallmark of his style is how easy he makes it all look, yet no one ever worked harder; perhaps that helps to explain a success that lasted for half a century. His unique career spans the eras of ragtime and rock and roll, and includes everything in between. ###   Cole Porter (1891–1964)   Along with George M. Cohan, Irving Berlin, Frank Loesser, Harold Rome, and Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter is one of the few top lyricists who composed his own music. A rich young man from Peru, Indiana, Porter began his professional writing career while still at Yale, and quickly had shows on Broadway. His first successes came in the late twenties (“Let’s Do It,” “What Is This Thing Called Love?”), but his quintessential work came in the thirties with a series of shows that included Gay Divorce, Anything Goes, Jubilee, Red Hot and Blue, and DuBarry Was a Lady. His most frequent collaborator was Ethel Merman, and their partnership extended into the forties with Panama Hattie and Something for the Boys. His most famous score— and biggest hit—was Kiss Me, Kate in 1948, which reestablished him as a major force in the American musical theater and prepared the way for his successes of the fifties, Can- Can and Silk Stockings. The Gay Divorcée, the Astaire/Rogers film version of Gay Divorce, used only one song from the show, but that song was “Night and Day.” Other films included Rosalie, Born to Dance, Broadway Melody of 1940, You’ll Never Get Rich, The Pirate, High Society, and Les Girls. And then there was the movie Night and Day, a ludicrous travesty of Porter’s sophisticated life and elegant lifestyle, starring an embarrassed (one hopes) Cary Grant and of course featuring the cream of Porter’s lifework, a unique blend of the passionate and the witty. ###   E. Y. Harburg (1896–1981)   Raised on New York’s tough Lower East Side and educated at City College (where he sat next to Ira Gershwin in classes), E. Y. (Yip) Harburg had a three-year stint as a journalist in South America, wrote light verse for newspapers, and ran an electrical appliance business before starting out as a lyricist in the late twenties. (When he was a kid, he had made a few bucks lighting street lamps for Consolidated Edison.) His long and happy career had two great high spots. The first was The Wizard of Oz, in 1939, which amply demonstrated the stretch of his talent: from the classic ballad “Over the Rainbow” to the patter songs of the Munchkins. He had a Broadway success, Bloomer Girl, with Harold Arlen, the composer of Oz, but his real theatrical smash, written in 1947 with composer Burton Lane, was Finian’s Rainbow, a show with half a dozen classic songs, also highly various. And consider the range of three of his most famous songs: the Depression anthem “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?,” Vernon Duke’s nostalgic ballad “April in Paris,” and the jaunty “It’s Only a Paper Moon.” As he grew older, Harburg’s social conscience—and satirical streak—grew stronger. His great early influence was W. S. Gilbert, both for Gilbert’s wit and his jaundiced view of society. By the time of the unsuccessful Flahooley, Harburg was making his anticapitalist views resoundingly clear. “For me,” he told Max Wilk, “satire has become a weapon. . . . I am stirred when I can tackle a problem that has profundity, depth, and real danger . . . by destroying it with laughter.” Fortunately, his strong political convictions didn’t keep him from receiving and fully enjoying much honor and attention in his later years.   (Original lyrics to mentioned songs included.)

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