Easy to remember : the great American songwriters and their songs
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Introduction

Sigmund Romberg and the Europeans

Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein and "Show Boat"

George and Ira Gershwin

Early Rodgers & Hart

Anatomy of the popular song : The verse ; The chorus ; The lyric

Vincent Youmans

DeSylva, Brown and Henderson

Harold Arlen (and Ted Koehler)

Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz

Andy Razaf and the African connection

Sheet music

Cole Porter

"Porgy and Bess"

Writing for Fred Astaire : Irving Berlin ; Dorothy Fields and Jerome Kern ; George and Ira Gershwin

Duke Ellington (and Billy Strayhorn)

Hoagy Carmichael (and Mitchell Parish)

Late Rodgers & Hart

Harry Warren (and Al Dubin and Mack Gordon)

E.Y. Harburg and "The wizard of Oz"

The songs of World War II

Johnny Mercer

Made in Hollywood : "As time goes by" and "Laura"

Kurt Weill (and Ira Gershwin and Vernon Duke)

Rodgers & Hammerstein

Singers of the song

Irving Berlin : the theater songs

Jule Styne (and Sammy Cahn)

Frank Loesser

Betty Comden and Adolph Green

Stephen Sondheim (and Leonard Bernstein)

Jimmy Van Heusen (and Johnny Burke and Sammy Cahn)

Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe

John Kander and Fred Ebb (and Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick)

Songs by category.