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"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 .
Sheet music for the 1927 composition from Show Boat. Items portrayed in this file depicts. Ol' Man River. inception. 1927. media type. ... Ol' Man River; Global file ...
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.
[47] For the 1936 film version of Show Boat, Kern and Hammerstein wrote three new songs, including "I Have The Room Above Her" and "Ah Still Suits Me". [2] High, Wide, and Handsome (1937) was intentionally similar in plot and style to Show Boat, but it was a box-office failure.
"Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" was strongly associated with 1920s torch singer Helen Morgan, who played Julie in the original 1927 stage production of Show Boat, as well as the 1932 revival and the 1936 film version. [2] [3] [4] While Morgan was alive, she "owned" the song as much as Judy Garland owned "Over the Rainbow" (from The Wizard of Oz ...
Show Boat (1927), with book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960); adapted from the novel Show Boat (1926) by Edna Ferber (1885–1968); with original orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett and additional orchestrations by Russell Warner and Larry Moore 1 (5:34) Overture; Act One, Scene One Cotton Blossom
“Ol’ Man River”, recorded by Bing Crosby on December 31, 1945 with Camarata and His Orchestra. [1] ““I Still Suits Me”, recorded by Bing Crosby and Lee Wiley on March 17, 1947 with Victor Young and His Orchestra. [1]
Johnny Cash covered it on the album American III: Solitary Man in 2000. k.d. lang covered it on the album A Wonderful World in 2002. Brian Wilson premiered a song cycle inspired by the song entitled That Lucky Old Sun (A Narrative) at the Royal Festival Hall, London, England on September 10, 2007.