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Jerome Kern

Jerome David Kern 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", "The Song Is You", "All the Things You Are", "The Way You Look Tonight" and "Long Ago". 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 Yip 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. From Wikipedia (

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Niagara: A Fine Romance (Marilyn Music Movies (2 / 2))

D. Fields, Jerome Kern, & Marilyn Monroe

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Can't Help Loving Dat Man (Outtake)

Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II

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All the Things You Are

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This Is The Army, Mr. Jones

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Sunny / Who?

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Paul Robeson - Ol' Man River (Showboat - 1936) J.Kern O. Hammerstein II

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Jacob Collier - I've Told Every Little Star (Transcription)

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Peter Bernstein & the Lori Mechem Trio - " Nobody Else But Me" - Live at the Nashville Jazz Workshop

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Ol' Man River - William Warfield and MGM chorus(Showboat)

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Frank Sinatra "The Song is You"

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Jerome Kern : "All the Things You Are”

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Patricia Routledge « I want to sing in Opera »

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you are love by kern hammerstein

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Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man

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Life Upon The Wicked Stage - from Showboat - Performed by Anna Kendricks and the Kit Kat Girls

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