Jerome Kern
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Jerome David Kern was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music.
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Jerome Kern in 1934
Angela Lansbury sings "How'd you like to spoon with me?" in Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
Billie Burke, for whom Kern wrote stage and screen music
Jerome Kern in 1918
Sheet music from Oh Boy!
Sheet music from Oh, Lady! Lady!!
Marilyn Miller, the star of Sally
Oscar Hammerstein II, one of Kern's chief collaboratorsAwards 3
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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.
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