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At the time, reviews of musicals rarely devoted much space to the songs' lyrics and melody. That was not true of the reviews of Americana. [17] In The New York Times, Brooks Atkinson wrote that "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" was "plaintive and thundering" and "the first song of the year that can be sung ... Mr. Gorney has expressed the spirit ...
"Ol' Man River" is a show tune from the 1927 [5] musical Show Boat with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, who wrote the song in 1925. The song contrasts the struggles and hardships of African Americans with the endless, uncaring flow of the Mississippi River .
He wrote the lyrics to the standards "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" (with Jay Gorney), "April in Paris", and "It's Only a Paper Moon", as well as all of the songs for the film The Wizard of Oz, including "Over the Rainbow". [1] He was known for the social commentary of his lyrics, as well as his leftist leanings.
It contained the famous song, “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?”, which a New York Times review called "the first song of the year that can be sung" and remarked "Mr. Gorney has expressed the spirit of these times with more heart-breaking anguish than any of the prose bards of the day." [9] The show was also favorably reviewed for its dance ...
"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" Jay Gorney: Yip Harburg: 1947 "But Beautiful" Jimmy Van Heusen: Johnny Burke [13] 1930 "But Not for Me" George Gershwin: Ira Gershwin: 1928 "Button Up Your Overcoat" Ray Henderson: Buddy DeSylva and Lew Brown: 1948 "Buttons and Bows" Jay Livingston: Ray Evans: 1967 "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" Jimmy Webb ...
Al Jolson (born Asa Yoelson, Yiddish: אַסאַ יואלסאָן; May 26, 1886 – October 23, 1950) was a Lithuanian-born American singer, actor, and vaudevillian.. He was one of the United States' most famous and highest-paid stars of the 1920s, [2] and was self-billed as "The World's Greatest Entertainer". [3]
The E in DIME was not enough, just as the administration’s Joint Doctrine had warned. It was not enough in February 2022, and it still is not enough in September 2024 — not against Russia, and ...
The pair's most famous song was "Brother Can You Spare a Dime," based on a lullaby that Gorney learned as a child in Russia. It first appeared in the 1932 Shubert production of New Americana and became the anthem of the Great Depression.