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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.
Robert Merrill & Patrice Munsel for the RCA album Show Boat (1956) [7] Roger Whittaker for the album A Perfect Day: His Greatest Hits and More (1996) [8] Steve Lawrence for the album The Steve Lawrence Sound (1960) [9] Tony Bennett for the album The Silver Lining: The Songs of Jerome Kern (2015) Tony Martin recorded on December 21, 1946 for ...
"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 for Vivienne Segal to perform, but it was withdrawn because it was considered too melancholy for that s
"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.
British-born actor William Chapman, Sr. created the first deliberately-planned showboat, named the Floating Theater in Pittsburgh in 1831. [1] He and his family of nine, along with two other people, lived on this boat and performed plays with added music and dance at stops along the waterways.
"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 ...
Nobody Else but Me", sometimes called "Nobody Else but You", is a song composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II for the 1946 Broadway revival of the musical Show Boat when it was introduced by Jan Clayton as the character Magnolia. [1] This was the last song written by Kern, who died November 11, 1945.
1.1 Music. 1.2 Novel and adaptations. 1.3 Radio. 2 Hotels and casinos. 3 Sports. 4 People. 5 Other uses. 6 See also. Toggle the table of contents. Showboat ...