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Pages in category "Songs from Show Boat" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Bill (song) C.
Show Boat is a musical with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.It is based on Edna Ferber's best-selling 1926 novel of the same name.The musical follows the lives of the performers, stagehands and dock workers on the Cotton Blossom, a Mississippi River show boat, over 40 years from 1887 to 1927.
The song was introduced by Norma Terris and Howard Marsh. It was not performed in the 1929 part-talkie film of Show Boat. The first successful recording [1] of the song was by Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra on January 27, 1928 (vocal by Bing Crosby). [2] The song has since become a standard and been recorded by numerous musical artists.
"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.
The song makes one last appearance in Act II of the show, when Magnolia uses it as an audition piece while trying to get a job as a singer in the Trocadero nightclub after Ravenal has deserted her. From backstage, Julie, now the featured star there after having been forced to leave the show boat by the local sheriff, hears Magnolia sing the song.
"Bill" is a song heard in Act II of Kern and Hammerstein's classic 1927 musical, Show Boat.The song was written by Kern and P. G. Wodehouse for their 1917 musical Oh, Lady! ! Lady!! for Vivienne Segal to perform, but it was withdrawn because it was considered too melancholy for that s
Selections from Showboat is a Decca Records compilation album of phonograph records featuring songs from the Jerome Kern / Oscar Hammerstein II musical Show Boat.
"You Are Love" is a song by Jerome Kern [1] and Oscar Hammerstein II from their classic 1927 musical play Show Boat. [2] It is sung twice in the show - first, by Magnolia Hawks, [3] the heroine, and riverboat gambler Gaylord Ravenal [4] when they agree to marry near the end of Act I, and again in the penultimate scene of Act II by Ravenal when he returns to Magnolia after having deserted her ...