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Sun Dec-27-09 08:59 PM
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Poll question: Rodgers and Hammerstein vs Rodgers and Hart |
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Sun Dec-27-09 09:03 PM
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I voted for Rogers and Hammerstein because their musicals are better known to me than Rodgers and Hart.
Although if you named some from the second pair, I'd probably know them too...
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Sun Dec-27-09 09:08 PM
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2. There were a lot of classics either way |
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But you're right, the Rodgers and Hammerstein stuff was much cooler
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Sun Dec-27-09 09:34 PM
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3. I like the Rodgers and Hart songs better. |
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For musical shows Rodgers and Hammerstein. For great songs Rodgers and Hart. The Hart lyrics are sophisticated, witty and a lot less sentimental and stand on their own. Both teams were genius no doubt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodgers_and_Harthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodgers_and_Hammerstein ....
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Sun Dec-27-09 10:24 PM
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4. I voted for R&H - am I WRONG?1 n/t |
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Sun Dec-27-09 10:47 PM
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6. So long as you include Rogers, it's correct... |
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Sun Dec-27-09 10:46 PM
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5. Hammerstein. And, I LOVE Rogers' "Victory at Sea." |
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Sun Dec-27-09 11:44 PM
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10. We have "Victory at Sea" on DVD... |
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It's amazing, and mostly for the incredible music!
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Mon Dec-28-09 07:46 AM
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12. The music is great. I hope you're feeling better! |
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Mon Dec-28-09 11:42 AM
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14. My dear Captain Hilts! |
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I love the music...
And thank you, yes, I am feeling much better...nothing like having your heart rhythm return to normal!
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Mon Dec-28-09 02:01 PM
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17. Victory at Sea was unique. |
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The music was most of the sound track. It was coordinated with the video in a way you don't see anymore.
There was very little talking, but Leonard Graves read his lines with utter conviction and a certain preachiness that is characteristic of a bygone era. In my mind's ear, I can hear him saying something like: "And now ... JUNGLE HELL" . (There was no episode with that title, but there could have been.)
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Mon Dec-28-09 04:16 PM
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27. Yes!! "One thing they didn't count on...THE US NAVY..." and so forth. nt |
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Sun Dec-27-09 11:05 PM
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7. The major difference, according to Rodgers |
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I forget which was which, but I think Hammerstein was taller than Hart, and Rodgers was of a height between the two. When he was with Hammerstein, he often heard people say that the tall guy was okay, but watch out for that short bastard. When he was teamed with Hart, it was all right to trust the short guy, but that tall son of a bitch bore watching.
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Sun Dec-27-09 11:17 PM
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9. Yes, Hart was the short one. |
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So short in fact that in the 1948 film about their partnership, "Words and Music", Lorenz Hart is played by Mickey Rooney.
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Sun Dec-27-09 11:15 PM
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8. Here's the real dilemma: R&H vs. Cole Porter! nt |
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Mon Dec-28-09 01:41 PM
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What say you? I'm having a real hard time making a choice on this one.
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Mon Dec-28-09 02:28 PM
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19. Hart's lyrics vs. Porter's lyrics? Hmm, that's a tough one. |
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Hart is clever but Porter is witty. Hell, both are clever and witty! Must move to the music, I guess.
Early Rodgers vs. Porter. I think I'm partial to Porter. Can't get Begin the Beguine out of my head right now.
I love all their work, but since Porter did double-duty, I'll have to say skoal to Cole.
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Mon Dec-28-09 03:45 PM
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24. I came to that conclusion while away from computer |
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I decided that since Cole did words and music that he wins. A genius. So many beautiful melodies, so many touching lyrics. And so many millions of hearts moved by it all. Think of "So in love with you am I" ----- wow!
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Mon Dec-28-09 02:28 PM
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A Cole Porter song that became a jazz standard. Great tune. Great lyrics.
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Mon Dec-28-09 03:17 PM
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23. Yep, that's a great one. Laziest Gal in Town and Why Can't You Behave come to mind, too. nt |
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Mon Dec-28-09 04:22 PM
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32. "I'd give up drinking coffee for Sanka, |
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even Sanka, Bianca, for you!"
gotta love a guy that could write THAT line...
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Mon Dec-28-09 02:56 PM
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22. No dilemma to me. I've got Ella Fitzgerald singing both! |
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As to Rodgers and Hart v. Rodgers and Hammerstein, I think it is a matter of preference. Hart was for the typical New Yorker audience, not the out of towner. Hammerstein moved into the broader, popular appeal. Hart had a more New York "edge." Hammerstein was more "Americanized", e.g. the rest of the country. Also, Hart wrote in a different decade with a different feel. Audiences liked their "Oklahoma!", "South Pacific," and "Carousel" postwar and they were easily made into popular movies. A few of Hart's were made, of course, but look what happened to the naughtiness of Pal Joey once it got made into a movie?
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Mon Dec-28-09 03:46 PM
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25. I bought Ella sings Cole Porter decades ago. |
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It is perfectly crafted, and in the era prior to digitalized tinkering. I wore out the LP.
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Mon Dec-28-09 04:19 PM
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30. I also have "My Cole Porter" by Sinatra. I wore that one out too. nt |
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Mon Dec-28-09 04:19 PM
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31. I used to have Bobby Short's LPs of Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter and Noel Coward.. |
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That was back in the 70s. My kids were teens at the time and thought I was just plain weird...
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Mon Dec-28-09 04:18 PM
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29. Me too! Ella was THE coolest woman of the 20th Century. Slightly more than ER. nt |
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Mon Dec-28-09 05:11 PM
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33. Ha! Me, too. Gotta rummage around my CDs now. nt |
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Mon Dec-28-09 04:17 PM
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28. Now, that's a tough one. I lean toward Porter on that one...nt |
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Mon Dec-28-09 01:11 AM
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11. Rodgers and Hammerstein |
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Edited on Mon Dec-28-09 01:11 AM by MilesColtrane
Setting aside their superior commercial success still leaves a song like "You've Got to be Carefully Taught", which would be for the win.
You've got to be taught To hate and fear You've got to be taught From year to Year It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear You've got to be carefully taught
You've got to be taught To be Afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made And people whose skin Is a different shade You've got to be carefully taught
You've got to be taught Before it's too late Before you are 6 or 7 or 8 To hate all the people your relatives hate You've got to be carefully taught
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Mon Dec-28-09 08:17 AM
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13. 'My Funny Valentine' immediately comes to mind. |
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Mon Dec-28-09 12:49 PM
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15. Rogers & Hart, witty and sophisticated. Rogers & Hammerstein, syrupy. |
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With only a few exceptions.
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Mon Dec-28-09 02:08 PM
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18. I voted Rodgers and Hart |
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but I like them both.
I chose Rodgers and Hart mostly because I adore the songs from Boys from Syracuse and I love "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered" from Pal Joey, among others.
If, however the vote was between either Rodgers pairing and Cole Porter, I would pick Porter, particularly "Anything Goes."
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Mon Dec-28-09 02:31 PM
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21. This Can't Be Love is a FABULOUS song!!!! nt |
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Tue Dec-29-09 02:39 AM
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I had to dance AND sing this one at the same time in a chorus line. Yikes.
If you're blue And you don't know Where to go to Why don't you go Where fashion sits? Puttin' on the ritz
Different types Who wear a day Coat; pants with stripes And cutaway coat Perfect fits Puttin' on the ritz
the immortal Irving Berlin
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Mon Dec-28-09 03:47 PM
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26. and nobody mentioned Irving Berlin! |
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Mon Dec-28-09 05:14 PM
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34. And Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern, Hoagy Carmichael, Duke Ellington. |
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They go on and on. Wonderful music!
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Mon Dec-28-09 05:21 PM
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35. Neat site with lyrics from the great popular songwriters. |
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Edited on Mon Dec-28-09 05:21 PM by valerief
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