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Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart were the premiere collaborators in the early years of American musical theater. In fact, they were the first team in which the lyricist received equal billing with the composer. Now Decca Broadway presents a wonderful overview of their illustrious career on a new CD.

Rodgers and Hart were the perfect songwriting team. Their fame was enduring and well-deserved. Their music and lyrics were superbly integrated in a sophisticated whole. Although their personal relationship was somewhat stormy, their songs never reflected the problems they were having. Most importantly for lovers of musical theater, Rodgers and Hart’s shows abounded in humor, emotion and class. Rodgers’ melodies, alternately playful and plaintive and Hart’s always witty and sometimes poignant lyrics had a depth of emotion, both high and low, rarely exhibited by their contemporaries. Listening to a Rodgers and Hart song always involved the mind as well as the heart.

Lorenz Hart was born in New York City on May 2, 1895. His parents, Max and Frieda Hart, were immigrants who instilled in their son a love of language and literature. He attended his first play when he was seven and was permanently hooked on the theater. Richard Rodgers wrote of their first meeting: “Neither of us mentioned it, but we evidently knew we'd work together, and I left Hart's house having acquired in one afternoon a career, a partner, a best friend and a source of permanent irritation.”

Richard Rodgers was born in New York City on June 28, 1902. This is where Rodgers and his parents, William and Mamie, lived and where his father practiced medicine. Rodgers showed an early gift for music. He could play the piano when only four years old.

Rodgers and Hart honed their talents in a series of amateur show musicals for Columbia University and various charities. When they finally hit Broadway they never looked back, enjoying success after success.

Though the majority of their shows are seldom revived, their songs have endured for over 75 years. They are still staples of pop and jazz singers throughout the world. 1925’s "Manhattan" was their first great hit and is now a standard in the jazz repertoire. They quickly followed it with such future standards as "The Blue Room," "Mountain Greenery," "My Heart Stood Still," "With a Song in My Heart," "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World," "My Romance" and "Little Girl Blue."

The 1936 show On Your Toes was an important step in the evolution of the American musical. In addition to the popular hits it spawned, such as "There's a Small Hotel," the title song and "Glad to Be Unhappy," Rodgers also penned two ballets, La Princesse Zenobia and the classic Slaughter on Tenth Avenue. Both were choreographed by the legendary George Balanchine.

They followed that triumph with Babes in Arms, which boasted a host of great hits, including "Where or When," "I Wish I Were in Love Again," "My Funny Valentine," "Johnny One Note" and "The Lady Is a Tramp."

The Boys from Syracuse was the first musical based on a play by Shakespeare. Rodgers and Hart were obviously inspired by the Bard with a terrific score including "Falling in Love with Love" and "This Can't Be Love."

Pal Joey was unappreciated in its time but the score was among the team's most sophisticated and adult. "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" was the big hit. It was followed by By Jupiter, the last full-scale collaboration between Rodgers and Hart.

Rodgers was a disciplined man used to working regular hours with great determination and single-mindedness. Hart was exactly the opposite. Whereas Rodgers knew exactly where he stood in the world, Hart was insecure and unstable, becoming increasingly more difficult as the partnership progressed. Often, he would disappear for days, forcing Rodgers to halt production or even write lyrics himself. Hart's insecurities led to more missed deadlines and more drinking. Rodgers reached the end of his patience during By Jupiter and began quietly to inquire about other partnerships.

The result was the pairing of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. But that’s the story of another compilation. Rodgers and Hart went on to one more production, a very successful revival of A Connecticut Yankee. Shortly thereafter, Hart disappeared. He remained missing for two days until he was found unconscious in a hotel room. He was taken to Doctor's Hospital, where it was determined he had pneumonia. On November 22, 1943, Lorenz Hart died.

The team of Rodgers and Hart was the most successful musical pairing of the first half of the twentieth century. Their smart, sophisticated and sometimes silly songs have become a part of the American lexicon.
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1. The Winner Takes it All
2. Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again
3. Try to Remember
4. Memory
5. My Funny Valentine
6. Not While I'm Around
7. I Don't Know How to Love Him
8. I Have Dreamed
9. Look, Look Away
10. Notice Me, Horton
11. Love Song
12. Time Heals Everything
13. People Like Us
14. Love Makes the World Go 'Round

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1. Overture
2. I Had Twins
3. Dear Old Syracuse
4. What Can You Do With a Man
5. Falling in Love With You
6. The Shortest Day of the Year
7. This Can't Be Love
8. Ladies of the Evening
9. He and She
10. You Have Cast Your Shadow on the Sea
11. Come With Me
12. Sing for Your Supper
13. Oh, Diogenes!
14. Finale
15. Oh, Diogenes!
16. Sing for Your Supper
17. Falling in Love With You
18. You Have Cast Your Shadow on the Sea
19. This Can't Be Love
20. The Shortest Day of the Year

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1. Our Last Summer
2. Good Morning Starshine
3. All I Ask of You
4. Not While I'm Around
5. Good Old Girl
6. Try To Remember
7. Love Song
8. Love Changes Everything
9. You Oughta Be Here With Me
10. I Have Dreamed
11. I Dreamed a Dream
12. High Flying Adored
13. My Funny Valentine
14. Dear One
15. Half A Moment
16. You're Just in Love

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1. On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
2. The Cock-eyed Optimist
3. Hello, Young Lovers
4. Here I'll Stay
5. I Could have Danced All Night
5. I've Grown Accustomed to His Face
5. Just You Wait
5. Let A Woman
5. Overture
5. Poor Professor Higgins
5. Show Me
5. The Rain In Spain
5. Wouldn't It Be Loverly
5. You Did It
6. Getting to Know You
7. Living In The Shadows
8. Bewiitched
9. I Have Dreamed
10. Babes In Arms
11. Camelot
11. Camelot
11. Guinevere
11. How to Handle a Woman
11. I Loved You Once In Silence
11. If Ever I Would Leave You
11. The Simple Joys of Maidenhood
11. What the Simple Folks Do
12. Crazy World
13. If I Loved You
14. Edelweis
15. The Sound Of Music

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1. Overture
2. My Heart Stood Still
3. Thou Swell
4. On a Desert Island with Thee
5. To Keep My Love Alive
6. Can't You Do a Friend a Favor?
7. I Feel at Home with You
8. You Always Love the Same Girl
9. Finale
10. Nothing But You
11. Ev'ry Sunday Afternoon
12. From Another World
13. It Never Entered My Mind
14. Careless Rhapsody
15. Jupiter Forbid
16. Ev'rything I've Got
17. Nobody's Heart

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Broadway’s Greatest Love Songs features the greatest romantic ballads written for the stage. Included are works written by a who’s who of Broadway songwriters including: Irving Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Boublil & Schonberg, Comden & Green, Jerry Herman, Frank Loesser, Henry Mancini, Alan Menken, Tim Rice, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Rodgers and Hart, Andrew Lloyd Webber and many others. These wonderful songs are interpreted by such stellar talents as Julie Andrews, Sarah Brightman, Betty Buckley, Richard Kiley, Gertrude Lawrence, Ethel Merman, Elaine Paige, Bernadette Peters, John Raitt, and Lea Salonga, just to name a few.

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1. People Will Say We're In Love
2. If I Loved You
3. They Say It's Wonderful
4. I"ve Never Been In Love Before
5. Hello, Young Lovers
6. A Little Bit In Love
7. There's A Small Hotel
8. I Say Hello
9. Love Makes The World Go Round
10. She Loves Me
11. Dulcinea
12. I Don't Know How Love Him
13. Time Heals Everything
14. Memory
15. Suddenly, Seymour
16. I Know Him So Well
17. On My Own
18. Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again
19. The Last Night of the World
20. Almost A love Song

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2. Two a Day for Keith
3. The 3 B's
4. It's Got To Be Love
5. Too Good for the Average Man
6. There's a Small Hotel
7. The Heart is Quicker than the Eye
8. Quiet Night
9. Glad To Be Unhappy
10. On Your Toes
11. You Took Advantage of Me
12. Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
13. On Your Toes Finale

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Disc 1
1. Oklahoma! Finale
2. Paree
3. Nobody makes a pass at me
4. Chain Store Daisy
5. South American Way
6. My heart belongs to Daddy
7. It never entered my mind
8. I got plenty o' nuttin'
9. I"ve still got my health
10. They Didn't Believe Me
11. Making Whoopee
12. Thank you North America
13. We're having as baby (My baby and me)
14. Theere's a boat dat's leavin' soon for New York
15. I left my heart at the stage door canteen
16. Oh, how I hate to get up in the morning
17. The Surrey With the Fringe on Top
18. I cain't say no
19. That's him
20. Speak low
21. Thou swell
22. To keep my love alive (Parts 1 & 2)
23. Dat's love
Disc 2
1. There must be someone for me
2. I love you
3. Something for the boys
4. By the Mississinewah
5. Let's begin
6. Evelina
7. The eagle and me
8. September song
9. Strange Music
10. Twelve o'clock and all is well
11. I wanna get married
12. I can cook too
13. I get carried away
14. Close as pages in a book
15. Currier & Ives
16. The big rock candy mountain
17. If I loved you
18. June is bustin' out all over
19. Mountain high, valley low
20. South America, take it away
21. You can't get a man with a gun
22. They say it's wonderful
23. Eadie was a lady (Parts 1 & 2)
Disc 3
1. I got rhythm
2. I get a kick out of you
3. Gotta dance
4. I'm the first girl in the second row
5. Make a miracle
6. Once in love with Amy
7. Lost in the stars
8. The Yodel Blues
9. A girl with a flame
10. There must be somethin' better than love
11. The hostess with the mostes' on the ball
12. I'll know
13. Adelaide's Lament
14. Jenny
15. Getting to know you
16. Ohio
17. Lazy afternoon
18. There's a small hotel
19. Eleven o'clock song/Finale
20. Camille, Collette, Fifi
21. Sun at my wondow, Love at my door
22. Now is the time
23. Never again
24. Too close for comfort
Disc 4
1. Ladies
2. Fair Warning
3. Shy
4. Too long at the fair
5. There's no tune like a show tune
6. I wouldn't bet one penny
7. You'd better love me
8. The usher from the mezzanine
9. The impossible dream (The Quest)
10. Poor little person (Single Version)
11. Coco
12. Welcome to the theatre
13. Won't you Charleston with me?
14. Superstar
15. Night letter
16. Time heals everything
17. Hard Candy Christmas
18. Don't cry for me, Argentina
19. Just one night
20. River in the rain
21. Me and my girl
22. I'll always remember the song
23. There's no business like show business

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1. The Sound of Music
2. I Have Dreamed
3. I Wish I Were in Love Again
4. Where or When
5. A Waltz Carousel
6. Nobody Told Me
7. This Can't Be Love -- Thou Swell
8. My Funny Valentine
9. It Never Entered My Mind -- Spring is Here
10. Bewitched
11. If I Loved You
12. Edelweiss
13. A Cock-eyed Optimist

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