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Songs from South Pacific (musical) (1 C, 10 P) Pages in category "Songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
Shall We Dance? (1951 song) A Ship Without a Sail; Sing for Your Supper; Sixteen Going on Seventeen; So Far (Rodgers and Hammerstein song) So Long, Farewell; Soliloquy (song) Some Enchanted Evening; Something Good (Richard Rodgers song) Something Wonderful (song) The Sound of Music (song) Spring Is Here; The Surrey with the Fringe on Top; The ...
"You'll Never Walk Alone" is a show tune from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel. In the second act of the musical, Nettie Fowler, the cousin of the protagonist Julie Jordan, sings "You'll Never Walk Alone" to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband, Billy Bigelow, the male lead, stabs himself with a knife whilst trying to run away after attempting a robbery with his mate ...
Rodgers and Hammerstein was a theater-writing team of composer Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) and lyricist-dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960), who together created a series of innovative and influential American musicals. Their musical theater writing partnership has been called the greatest of the 20th century.
Richard Rodgers originally composed this tune (with the title "Beneath the Southern Cross") for the NBC television series Victory at Sea (1952/1953). When Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II collaborated on Me and Juliet, Rodgers took his old melody and set it to new words by Hammerstein, producing the song "No Other Love". [1]
"Some Enchanted Evening" is a show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific. It has been described as "the single biggest popular hit to come out of any Rodgers and Hammerstein show." [1] Andrew Lloyd Webber describes it as the "greatest song ever written for a musical". [2]
Julie Andrews performed this song with The Muppets as the opening number to her guest appearance on The Muppet Show in 1977.. In The Nanny episode "Stock Tip" from Series 2, Brighton accidentally plays the song instead of hip hop and suggests his dad, esteemed Broadway producer Maxwell Sheffield, should play his cassettes on his own stereo to prevent further mix-ups.
"Blue Moon" is a popular song written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in 1934 that has become a standard ballad. Early recordings included those by Connee Boswell and by Al Bowlly in 1935. The song was a hit twice in 1949, with successful recordings in the U.S. by Billy Eckstine and Mel Tormé.