Often wrote standing up at a high, antique bookkeeper's desk, a gift from old friend/collaborator Jerome Kern. He always claimed it helped keep his creative juices flowing.
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'Carousel' with the New York Philharmonic
(2013)
(lyrics: "You're A Queer One, Julie Jordan", "Mister Snow", "Bench Scene" including "If I Loved You", "Musical Sequence including 'June Is Bustin' Out All Over' ", "When The Children Are Asleep", "Blow High, Blow Low", "Soliloquy", "This Was A Real Nice Clambake", "Geraniums In the Winder", "Stonecutters Cut It On Stone", "What's The Use of Wond'rin'", "You'll Never Walk Alone", "The Highest Judge of All")
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Flicka and Friends: From Rossini to Show Boat
(1990)
(lyrics: "Cotton Blossom", "Where's The Mate For Me?", "Make Believe", "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "You Are Love", "Why Do I Love You?", "Bill")
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Our All Time Favourite Films
(2010)
(lyrics: "There Is Nothin' Like A Dame" - uncredited, "Happy Talk" - uncredited, "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out Of My Hair" - uncredited, "Some Enchanted Evening" - uncredited, "A Wonderful Guy" - uncredited, "The Sound of Music" - uncredited, "My Favorite Things" - uncredited, "So Long, Farewell" - uncredited, "Do Re Mi" - uncredited, "The Lonely Goatherd" - uncredited, "Sixteen Going On Seventeen" - uncredited)
2009Away We Go
(writer: "So Long, Farewell" / as Oscar Hammerstein)
2009Grey Gardens
(TV movie)
(writer: "All the Things You Are" / lyrics: "I Won't Dance", "We Belong Together", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "Life Upon the Wicked Stage")
2008Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical Treasure
(TV documentary)
(lyrics: "Getting to Know You" - uncredited, "Ol' Man River" - uncredited, "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top" - uncredited, "If I Loved You" - uncredited)
2003The Saddest Music in the World
(lyrics: "The Song Is You" 1932, "The Song Is You - Cylinder Dirge Version" 1932, "The Song Is You - Flashback Version" 1932, "The Song Is You - Narcissa's Foxtrot Version" 1932, "The Song Is You - The Town Sings Version" 1932, "The Song Is You - Lady's Salon Version" 1932, "The Song Is You - Marching Band Version" 1932, "The Song Is You - Klezmer Band Version" 1932, "The Song Is You - Chester's Last Gasp Version" 1932, "The Song Is You - Roderick and Narcissa Version" 1932)
2001Moulin Rouge!
(writer: "The Sound of Music", "The Pitch Spectacular Spectacular", Musical score features parts of:)
2001South Pacific
(TV movie)
(lyrics: "There Is Nothing Like A Dame", "A Cock Eyed Optimist", "Bloody Mary", "Bali Ha'i", "Twin Soliloquies", "Some Enchanted Evening", "Dites-Moi", "Younger Than Springtime", "Im Gonna Wash That Man Outta My Hair", "Some Enchanted Evening Reprise", "Im In Love With A Wonderful Guy", "Youve Got To Be Carefully Taught", "This Nearly Was Mine", "Honey Bun", "Finale Ultimo", "My Girl Back Home")
1999The King and I
(lyrics: "I Whistle A Happy Tune", "Hello, Young Lovers", "Getting To Know You", "Shall I Tell You What I Think Of You?", "A Puzzlement", "I Have Dreamed", "Shall We Dance")
1997Flubber
(writer: "OH WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MORNIN'")
1997Cinderella
(TV movie)
(lyrics: "Prologue", "The Prince is Giving a Ball", "In My Own Little Corner", "In My Own Little Corner reprise", "Impossible", "It's Possible", "Ten Minutes Ago", "Stepsisters' Lament", "Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?", "A Lovely Night", "Finale Ultimo", "There's Music in You")
1976That's Entertainment, Part II
(documentary)
(lyrics: "Stouthearted Men" 1928 - uncredited, "Lover, Come Back to Me" 1928 - uncredited, "Ol' Man River" 1927 - uncredited, "The Last Time I Saw Paris" 1941 - uncredited)
1975Grey Gardens
(documentary)
(music: "People Will Say We're in Love")
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Songs of the 40's
(1972)
(lyrics: "It's a Grand Night for Singing" - uncredited, "Oklahoma!" - uncredited, "People Will Say We're in Love" - uncredited, "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top" - uncredited, "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" - uncredited, "Kansas City" - uncredited)
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Academy Awards
(1970)
(lyrics: "The Last Time I Saw Paris" - uncredited)
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Episode #6.23
(1969)
(lyrics: "Ol' Man River" - uncredited)
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Episode #3.19
(1966)
(lyrics: "A Fellow Needs a Girl" - uncredited)
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Episode #2.26
(1965)
(writer: "The Song is You" - uncredited, "Indian Love Call" - uncredited)
1967Movin' with Nancy
(TV special)
(writer: "Younger than springtime")
1967Carousel
(TV movie)
(lyrics: "Mister Snow", "If I Loved You", "June Is Bustin' Out All Over", "When The Children Are Asleep", "Blow High, Blow Low", "Soliloquy", "A Real Nice Clambake", "What's The Use of Wond'rin'", "You'll Never Walk Alone", "The Highest Judge of All")
1965The Great Race
(lyrics: "The Desert Song" - uncredited)
1965The Sound of Music
(writer: "The Sound Of Music" - uncredited, "Edelweiss" - uncredited, "Climb Ev'ry Mountain Reprise" - uncredited, "My Favorite Things Reprise" - uncredited, "So Long, Farewell Reprise" - uncredited, "Do-Re-Mi Reprise" - uncredited, "Edelweiss Reprise" - uncredited, "Sixteen Going On Seventeen Reprise" - uncredited / lyrics: "The Sound of Music" 1959 - uncredited, "Do-Re-Mi" 1959 - uncredited, "My Favorite Things" 1959 - uncredited, "Preludium Dixit Dominus" 1959 - uncredited, "Morning Hymn" 1959 - uncredited, "Alleluia" 1959 - uncredited, "Maria" 1959 - uncredited, "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" 1959 - uncredited - uncredited, "The Lonely Goatherd" 1959 - uncredited, "Edelweiss" 1959 - uncredited, "So Long, Farewell" 1959 - uncredited, "How Can Love Survive" 1959 - uncredited, "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" 1959 - uncredited)
1965Cinderella
(TV movie)
(lyrics: "Loneliness of Evening", "In My Own Little Corner", "The Prince Is Giving a Ball", "Impossible", "It's Possible", "Ten Minutes Ago", "Stepsisters' Lament", "Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?", "When You're Driving Through the Moonlight", "A Lovely Night")
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The Twizzle
(1962)
(writer: "This Nearly Was Mine" - uncredited)
1961Yves Montand on Broadway
(TV movie)
(lyrics: "I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy" - uncredited, "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" - uncredited, "You'll Never Walk Alone" - uncredited)
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Episode #1.10
(1957)
(lyrics: "Lover Come Back to Me" - uncredited)
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Episode #1.3
(1957)
(lyrics: "Life upon the Wicked Stage" / "I Won't Dance")
1957The Edsel Show
(TV special)
(lyrics: "There Is Nothing Like a Dame" - uncredited, "It's a Grand Night for Singing" - uncredited, "No Other Love" - uncredited)
1957The Helen Morgan Story
(lyrics: "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "Bill", "Why Was I Born?")
1957Cinderella
(TV movie)
(lyrics: "The Prince Is Giving a Ball", "In My Own Little Corner", "Royal Dressing Room Scene", "In My Own Little Corner" reprise, "Impossible; It's Possible", "Ten Minutes Ago", "Stepsisters' Lament", "Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?", "When You're Driving Through The Moonlight" A Lovely Night, "The Wedding")
1956The King and I
(lyrics: "I Whistle A Happy Tune" 1951 - uncredited, "Hello,Young Lovers" 1951 - uncredited, "A Puzzlement" 1951 - uncredited, "Getting To Know You" 1951 - uncredited, "We Kiss in a Shadow" 1951 - uncredited, "Something Wonderful" 1951 - uncredited, "Act I Finale" 1951 - uncredited, "The Small House of Uncle Thomas" 1951 - uncredited, "Song of the King" 1951 - uncredited, "Shall We Dance" 1951 - uncredited)
1956Carousel
(lyrics: "Mister Snow" 1945 - uncredited, "If I Loved You" 1945 - uncredited, "June Is Bustin' Out All Over" 1945 - uncredited, "Soliloquy" 1945 - uncredited, "When the Children Are Asleep" 1945 - uncredited, "This Was a Real Nice Clambake" 1945 - uncredited, "Stonecutters Cut It On Stone" 1945 - uncredited, "What's the Use of Wond'rin'" 1945 - uncredited, "You'll Never Walk Alone" 1945 - uncredited, "If I Loved You Reprise" 1945 - uncredited)
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Together with Music
(1955)
(lyrics: "Dites-moi" - uncredited, "The Cockeyed Optimist" - uncredited, "Some Enchanted Evening" - uncredited, "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair" - uncredited, "A Wonderful Guy" - uncredited, "I Won't Dance" - uncredited)
1955Oklahoma!
(lyrics: "Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin'" 1943 - uncredited, "The Surrey With the Fringe On Top" 1943 - uncredited, "Kansas City" 1943 - uncredited, "I Cain't Say No" 1943 - uncredited, "Many A New Day" 1943 - uncredited, "People Will Say We're In Love" 1943 - uncredited, "Pore Jud Is Daid" 1943 - uncredited, "Out of My Dreams" 1943 - uncredited, "The Farmer and the Cowman" 1943 - uncredited, "All 'er Nothin'" 1943 - uncredited, "People Will Say We're In Love Reprise" 1943 - uncredited, "Oklahoma!" 1943 - uncredited)
1954Deep in My Heart
(lyrics: "Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise", "It", "One Alone", "Lover, Come Back to Me", "When I Grow Too Old to Dream", "You Will Remember Vienna", "Stouthearted Men")
1954Carmen Jones
(lyrics: "SEND THEM ALONG", "LIFT 'EM UP AN' PUT 'EM DOWN", "DAT'S LOVE", "YOU TALK JUS' LIKE MY MAW", "YOU GO FOR ME", "CARMEN JONES IS GOIN' TO JAIL", "DERE'S A CAFE ON DE CORNER", "DIS FLOWER", "BEAT OUT DAT RHYTHM ON A DRUM", "STAN' UP AN' FIGHT", "WHIZZIN' AWAY ALONG DE TRACK", "THERE'S A MAN I'M CRAZY FOR", "CARD SONG", "MY JOE", "HE GOT HIS SELF ANOTHER WOMAN", "FINAL DUET", "STRING ME HIGH ON A TREE")
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Episode #2.48
(1951)
(lyrics: "You'll Never Walk Alone")
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Episode #1.15
(1949)
(lyrics: "Some Enchanted Evening", "Song of the Flame Don't Forget Me")
1951Show Boat
(lyrics: "Cotton Blossom" 1927 - uncredited, "Where's the Mate For Me?" 1927 - uncredited, "Make Believe" 1927 - uncredited, "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" 1927 - uncredited, "I Might Fall Back on You" 1927 - uncredited, "Ol' Man River" 1927 - uncredited, "You Are Love" 1927 - uncredited, "Why Do I Love You?" 1927 - uncredited, "Bill" 1927 - uncredited, "Life Upon the Wicked Stage" 1927 - uncredited, "Make Believe" 1927 / reprise - uncredited, "Finale: Ol' Man River" 1927 - uncredited)
1946Till the Clouds Roll By
(lyrics: "Show Boat", "Who?" - uncredited, "Sunny" - uncredited, "One More Dance" - uncredited, "I Won't Dance" - uncredited, "The Last Time I Saw Paris" - uncredited, "All the Things You Are" - uncredited, "Why Was I Born?" - uncredited, "Ol' Man River" - uncredited)
1945State Fair
(lyrics: "OUR STATE FAIR", "IT MIGHT AS WELL BE SPRING", "THAT'S FOR ME", "IT'S A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING", "ISN'T IT KIND OF FUN?", "ALL I OWE IOWAY")
1945War Comes to America
(documentary)
(lyrics: "The Last Time I Saw Paris" - uncredited)
1940New Moon
(lyrics: "Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise" 1928 - uncredited, "One Kiss" 1928 - uncredited, "Wanting You" 1928 - uncredited, "Lover, Come Back to Me" 1928 - uncredited, "Stouthearted Men" 1928 - uncredited, "Marianne" 1928 - uncredited)
1939Blondie Meets the Boss
(lyrics: "A Mist Is Over the Moon" 1938 - uncredited, "That Week in Paris" 1938 - uncredited)
1938The Great Waltz
(lyrics: "Tales From the Vienna Woods, Op.325" 1868 - uncredited, "There'll Come a Time" - uncredited, "I'm in Love with Vienna" - uncredited, "One Day When We Were Young" 1885 - uncredited, "Artist's Life, Op.316" 1867 - uncredited, "On the Beautiful Blue Danube, Op.314" 1867 - uncredited, "Voices of Spring" 1883 - uncredited, "Du Und Du Only You" 1874 - uncredited, "Revolutionary March" 1848 - uncredited, "Die Fledermaus The Bat" 1874 - uncredited)
1938The Lady Objects
(lyrics: "That Week in Paris", "When You're in the Room", "Home in Your Arms", "A Mist Is Over the Moon")
1937High, Wide, and Handsome
("High , Wild and Handsome", "Can I Forget You ?", "Will You Marry Me Tomorrow, Maria ?", "The Folks, who live on the Hill", "The Things I Want", "Allegheny Al")
1936Give Us This Night
(lyrics: "I Mean to Say I Love You", "Fisherman Song", "Music in the Night and Laughter in the Air", "My Love and I", "Sorrento Song", "Sweet Melody of Night")
1935The Night Is Young
("The Night is Young" 1935 - uncredited, "When I Grow Too Old to Dream" 1935 - uncredited, "My Old Mare" 1935 - uncredited, "The Noble Duchess" 1935 - uncredited, "Lift Your Glass" 1935 - uncredited, "There's a Riot in Havana" 1935 - uncredited)
1934Sweet Adeline
(lyrics: "We Were So Young" 1934 - uncredited, "Play Us a Polka Dot" 1934 - uncredited, "Here Am I" 1929 - uncredited, "Why Was I Born" 1929 - uncredited, "Oriental Moon" 1934 - uncredited, "Molly O'Donahue" 1934 - uncredited, "Lonely Feet" 1934 - uncredited, "'Twas Not So Long Ago" 1929 - uncredited, "Pretty Little Jenny Lee" 1934 - uncredited, "Don't Ever Leave Me" 1929 - uncredited)
1934Music in the Air
(lyrics: "School Prayer", "One More Dance", "I've Told Every Little Star", "There's a Hill Beyond a Hill", "I'm So Eager", "I'm Coming Home", "We Belong Together", "I'm Alone")
1934The Flame Song
(short)
(lyrics: "Song of the Flame", "The Cossack Love Song" - uncredited)
1934Music in Your Hair
(short)
(lyrics: "Lover, Come Back to Me" - uncredited)
1932/IThe Red Shadow
(short)
(lyrics: "One Alone" - uncredited, "The Riff Song" - uncredited, "One Flower Grows Alone in Your Garden" - uncredited)
1931Children of Dreams
(lyrics: "Fruit Picker's Song", "Oh, Couldn't I Love That Girl", "Her Professor", "Children of Dreams", "Sleeping Beauty", "If I Had a Girl Like You", "Seek Love", "Yes Sir")
1930New Moon
(lyrics: "Lover Come Back to Me" 1928 - uncredited, "Wanting You" 1928 - uncredited, "One Kiss" 1928 - uncredited, "Stout Hearted Men" 1928 - uncredited)
1930Viennese Nights
(lyrics: "You Will Remember Vienna", "I Bring a Love Song", "I'm Lonely", "Here We Are", "Regimental March", "Yes, Yes, Yes", "Viennese Nights")
1930Sunny
(lyrics: "The Hunt Dance" 1925 - uncredited, "I Was Alone" 1925 - uncredited, "When We Get Our Divorce" 1925 - uncredited, "Who?" 1925 - uncredited, "Sunny" 1925 - uncredited, "D'Ya Love Me?" 1925 - uncredited, "Two Little Love Birds" 1925 - uncredited)
1930Whoopee!
(lyrics: "Ol' Man River" 1927 - uncredited)
1930Golden Dawn
(lyrics: "The Whip" 1925 - uncredited, "My Bwanna" 1925 - uncredited, "We Two" 1925 - uncredited, "Dawn" 1925 - uncredited, "Mulungu Thabu" - uncredited)
1930The Song of the Flame
(lyrics: "The Cossack Love Song", "Song of the Flame", "Wander Away")
1930The Three Sisters
(lyrics: "Lonely Feet", "Hand in Hand", "Keep Smiling", "Won't Dance", "Roll on Rolling Road", "What Good Are Words", "You Are Doing Very Well")
1930Song of the West
(lyrics: "The Bride Was Dressed in White" - uncredited, "Hay-Straw" - uncredited, "I Like You as You Are" - uncredited, "The One Girl" - uncredited)
1929Show Boat
(lyrics: "C'mon Folks" Queenie's Ballyhoo / 1927 - uncredited, "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" 1927 - uncredited, "Hey, Feller!" 1927 - uncredited, "Bill" 1927 - uncredited, "Ol' Man River" 1927 - uncredited, "Why Do I Love You" 1927 - uncredited)
I am not a trained musician. As a librettist I use music as a tool that a kind composer has given me, but I have no idea where he got it. I do have some idea of how music can affect an audience in a theatre, and only in within this limited area do I consider qualified to discuss the work of Richard Rodgers...
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Trivia:
Often wrote standing up at a high, antique bookkeeper's desk, a gift from old friend/collaborator Jerome Kern. He always claimed it helped keep his creative juices flowing.
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