Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein
Richard Rodgers (June 28, 1902 - December 30, 1979) and Oscar Hammerstein (July 12, 1895 - August 23, 1960) were a celebrated American songwriter-composer duo.
Earlier in his career, Rodgers worked together with Lorenz Hart. Together they wrote many songs for Broadway musical and Hollywood film adaptations, several of which have become standards: Dancing on the Ceiling (1930), Isn't It Romantic? (1932), Blue Moon (1934), The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (1935), My Funny Valentine (1937), The Lady Is a Tramp (1937) and Have You Met Miss Jones? (1937).
Hammerstein worked with various other composers, including Jerome Kern, Vincent Youmans, Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg. With Kern, he wrote the musical Show Boat (1927), with the standard Ol' Man River.
With Oscar Hammerstein, Rodgers wrote music for Broadway musicals later adapted into Hollywood movies like Oklahoma! (1943), Carousel (1945), South Pacific (1949), The King and I (1951) and The Sound of Music (1959). Several songs by Rodgers and Hammerstein have become standards: People Will Say We're in Love (1943), The Surrey with the Fringe on Top (1943), Oklahoma (1943), You'll Never Walk Alone (1945), Some Enchanted Evening (1949), Bali Ha'i (1949), I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair (1949), I Whistle A Happy Tune (1951), Getting To Know You (1951), Hello Young Lovers (1951), Shall We Dance (1951), The Sound of Music, Edelweiss, Do-Re-Mi, The Lonely Goatherd and My Favorite Things (1959).
Frank Zappa
During the 1969 concert at Us Colden Center, Queens College, Zappa quoted from Rodgers and Hammerstein's My Favorite Things during King Kong. Decades later, performing in 1988 at Music Hall in Cleveland, Ohio, he quoted from My Favorite Things during King Kong again. [1][2]
When performing at Appleton Wisconsin in 1969, Zappa covered Rodgers and Hammerstein's Bali Ha'i. [3] and while performing King Kong in L.A. on 23 July 1968 at the Whisky a Go-Go, he quoted from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Getting To Know You. [4]
In 1984, Zappa quoted from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Some Enchanted Evening, while performing Penguin In Bondage at the Newport Music Hall in Columbus, Ohio. [5][6]
Zappa often quoted from Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Surrey with the Fringe on Top too [7]: during Easy Meat at the 1980 concert in Nantes, France [8], Sharleena at the Sporthalle in Böblingen (1982) [9], during Trouble Every Day and Penguin In Bondage in 1984 in Düsseldorf, Germany [10], during Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel at the Newport Music Hall in Columbus, Ohio (1984) [11] and in Seattle, Washington (1984), during Penguin In Bondage. [12]
References
- ↑ https://www.donlope.net/fz/songs/My_Favorite_Things.html
- ↑ https://www.zappateers.com/fzshows/88.html#NA
- ↑ https://www.donlope.net/fz/songs/Bali_Hai.html
- ↑ https://www.donlope.net/fz/songs/Getting_To_Know_You.html
- ↑ https://www.donlope.net/fz/songs/Some_Enchanted_Evening.html
- ↑ https://www.zappateers.com/fzshows/84.html#NA2
- ↑ https://www.donlope.net/fz/songs/Surrey_With_The_Fringe_On_Top.html
- ↑ https://www.zappateers.com/fzshows/80.html#EU
- ↑ https://www.zappateers.com/fzshows/8182.html#EU
- ↑ https://www.zappateers.com/fzshows/84.html#EU
- ↑ https://www.zappateers.com/fzshows/84.html#EU
- ↑ https://www.zappateers.com/fzshows/84.html#EU
