Composed by Kern and Hammerstein for 1937's film "High, Wide, and Handsome", this definitive rendition came two decades later.

Peggy Lee brings a timeless mix of hope and wistfulness to this tune, setting out the plans she has to grow old with her beloved.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu-z8mJKzs4
#PeakOfThePops #JeromeKern #OscarHammerstein #PeggyLee

"The Way You Look To-night" is a song from the film #SwingTime that was performed by #FredAstaire and composed by #JeromeKern with lyrics written by #DorothyFields. It won the #AcademyAwardForBestOriginalSong in 1936. Fields 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."In the movie.
https://youtu.be/rahlSR7nvsc

"I Won't Dance" is a song with music by #JeromeKern that has become a #jazzStandard. The song has two different sets of lyrics: the first written by #OscarHammersteinII and #OttoHarbach in 1934, and second written by #DorothyFields (though #JimmyMcHugh was also credited) in 1935. Kern, Hammerstein and Harbach originally wrote "I Won't Dance" for the 1934 London musical #ThreeSisters. However, Three Sisters flopped and was quickly forgotten.
https://youtu.be/7oueFpIe7yI

They Didn't Believe Me, by Jerome Kern, 1914. Widely regarded as the song that heralded the era of the Great American Song Book. Its innovations included using four beats to the bar, rather than the customary waltz-rhythms, as well as everyday language rather than flowery, more operatic language from Europe. Popular music in America would never be the same. This lovely version is by Julie London.

#JukeboxFridayNight #ChangeMakers #GreatAmericanSongBook #JeromeKern

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-GTnjXQgMs

Big #composer/ #songwriter birthdays today:
#BOTD:

#Mozart - too many to mention :)

#BuddyGDesylva- songwriter & producer (one of many productions was PALM BEACH STORY, a #screwballccomedy classic ) (pic below)

#JeromeKern - SHOW BOAT

also beloved actor, #DonnaReed

#classicfilm
#Broadway
#musicals

A sampling of creations from 1927 entering public domain on January 1: Virginia Woolf's 'To the Lighthouse', Willa Cather's 'Death Comes for the Archbishop'; Fritz Lang's film 'Metropolis'; Louis Armstrong's 'Potato Head Blues'; Irving Berlin's 'Puttin' On the Ritz'; Jerome Kern's 'Ol' Man River' and 'Can't Help Lovin' That Man of Mine.'

The best things in life are free. (Yep—that, too!)

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2023/

#FritzLang #LouisArmstrong #VirginiaWoolf #JeromeKern #WillaCather #PublicDomain