Subject: RE: Forgotten writers of well-remembered songs
From: MtheGM - PM
Date: 09 Sep 09 - 11:38 PM

"Piers Plowman: YOU might not have forgotten those you name [of some of whom I admit I had never heard]; you obviously take a specialist and scholarly interest, as I endeavour to do; but would you say they were universally recalled, as say Berlin·Porter·Gershwins·Kern·Rodgers/Hart/Hammerstein are & HarryWarren·AlDubin·YipHarburg·et·al FOR SOME REASON aren't? — which is my OP point."

I agree, there are quite a few who are not as well-known as Gershwin, Kern, Porter and some others. I do take a specialist and semi-scholarly interest in this style of music, but my main interest is in playing it. It makes up a substantial part of my repertoire.

Jurmann and Kaper wrote "All God's Chillun Got Wings" and "San Francisco (Open Your Golden Gate)" and Kaper wrote "Hi-Lilly Hi-Lo", as well as many German songs, some, at least, together with the lyricist Fritz Rotter. Many were sung by the Comedian Harmonists.

"PS I knew really that was Berlin - it was meant as a referential jest, as I am sure you appreciated all along."

Does that mean I don't get a prize? :(

I think the arrangers also deserve to be remembered and the composers of operettas, too.