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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, written in a blues tempo, is sung in the show by several characters, but is most closely associated with the character Julie, the biracial leading lady of the showboat Cotton Blossom. It is Julie who is first heard singing the song – to Magnolia, the daughter of Cap'n Andy Hawks and his wife Parthenia (Parthy), owners of the showboat.
"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.
Show Boat is a 1936 American romantic musical film directed by James Whale, based on the 1927 musical of the same name by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, which in turn was adapted from the 1926 novel of the same name by Edna Ferber.
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.
"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 for Vivienne Segal to perform, but it was withdrawn because it was considered too melancholy for that s
Mis'ry's Comin' Aroun' is a once-neglected song from the 1927 musical Show Boat by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II.It was cut from the production during the Washington D.C. tryout on the orders of producer Florenz Ziegfeld, supposedly because it was one of the factors that made the show too long (it ran four-and-a-half hours when it premiered).
"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 ...