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Gus Kahn (1886 - 1941)
German-born lyricist; wrote many hit songs. Portrayed by Danny Thomas in the biopic, I'll See You in My Dreams, 1951.
Compositions used in films on Class Act:
Ain't We Got Fun
All God's Chillun Got Rhythm
Antoinette and Anatole
As If I Didn't Know
Blue Danube Dream (added lyric to "The Blue Danube")
Blue Love Bird
Blue Venetian Waters
Broadway Serenade for Every Lonely Heart
Carioca
Carolina in the Morning
Coquette
Cowboys
Dear Little Cafe (additional lyrics)
Earful of Music, An
Flying Down to Rio
General Hiram Johnson Jefferson Brown
Girl Friend of a Boy Friend of Mine, A
Happy New Year
He Who Loves and Runs Away
Honolulu
I Wish I Had a Girl
I'll See You in My Dreams
I'm Through with Love
Ice Cream Fantasy
It Had to Be You
It's Foolish but It's Fun
Just for You
Leader Doesn't Like Music, The
Let's Sing Again
Liebestraum (English Lyrics)
Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)
Love in Any Language
Love Me Or Leave Me
Makin' Waffles
Makin' Whoopee
(Down On) Melody Farm
Memories
Music Makes Me
My Baby Just Cares for Me
My Buddy
My Heart Is Singing
No No Nora
Nobody's Sweetheart
Okay, Toots
One I Love, The
One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else, The
One Night of Love
Orchids in the Moonlight
Owl and the Bobcat, The
Pardon Me, Madame
Prayer
Pretty Baby
Ridin' the Range
San Francisco
Señorita
Shadows on the Moon
Ship Ahoy
Show Must Go On, The
Soldiers of Fortune
Someone to Care for Me
Song of the Setting Sun, The
Stetson
Sun-up to Sundown
Swing Mr. Mendelssohn
Swingin' Down the Lane
This Night Will Be My Souvenir
Time Changes Everything
Today's the Day
Tomorrow Is Another Day
Tonight Will Teach Me to Forget (English lyric)
Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Goo' Bye)
Waitin' for Katy
Waltzing in the Clouds
West Ain't Wild Anymore, The
What Are You Going to Do About the Boys?
When April Sings
When My Ship Comes In
While My Lady Sleeps
Who Are We to Say?
Wind in the Trees, The
Yes Sir, That's My Baby
You Can't Argue with Love
You Stepped out of a Dream
Your Eyes Have Told Me So
Compositions on JGDB:
Charley, My Boy
We Must Have Music
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Roger Wolfe Kahn (1907 - 1962)
(Roger Wolfe Kahn and his Biltmore Orchestra)
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Bert Kalmar (1884 - 1947)
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Bronislau Kaper (1902 - 1983)
(sometimes spelled Bronislaw Kaper)
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Karlin, Fred
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Kasha, Al
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Kassel, Art
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Katz, Bill
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Kaye, Buddy
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Kaye, Florence
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Keiser, Robert A.
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Keller, Jack
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Kellette, John
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Kenbrovin, Jean
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Kendis, James
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Kennedy, Amanda
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Kennedy, Jimmy
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Kennett, Karl
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Kenny, Charles
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Kenny, Nick
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Kent, Leonard
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Kent, Walter
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Jerome Kern (1885 - 1945)
Jerome Kern is one of my personal favorite composers of popular music. As Judy Garland states in her spoken tribute, "Ladies and Gentlemen, I hope you'll forgive my becoming somewhat lyrical, but I believe the
man of whom I'm going to speak and to whom Paul Whiteman, Les Paul, the Trio, Paul Whiteman's Orchestra and Chorus and yours truly pay tribute is worthy of lyrical praise. He has composed hundreds of
songs; melodious, poignant, wistful, tender and utterly enchanting. Jerome Kern has brought to the treasury of American Song the wealth of his own great talent, and he's enriched the American scene
for his being part of it. Because our own Paul Whiteman is honorary chairman of Kern Jubilee Week, in which the entire entertainment world pays homage to this great composer, in his honor we play and
sing his music." [Judy Garland on Philco Hall of Fame, December 17, 1944]
Jerome David Kern was born on January 27, 1885 in New York City. While in high school, he published his first song, "At the Casino." He later studied piano, harmony and composition at the New York
College of Music and at Heidelburg Conservatory. He began work at T.B. Harms & Co. in 1905 as a "song plugger". That same year he placed a number of minor songs in various theater productions
and hit with "How'd You Like to Spoon with Me?" (sung by Angela Lansbury in Till the Clouds Roll By).
For the next ten years, Kern continued to turn out tunes for the theater. In 1914 he hit again with one of his most memorable ballads: "They Didn't Believe Me" (sung by Dinah Shore in
Till the Clouds Roll By). In 1915 Kern formed a collaboration with Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse. They turned out a series of musicals at a small theater called The Princess
Theater. Kern's Broadway career was now in full swing and climaxed in 1927 with Show Boat, one of the most popular American musical plays of all time.
Beginning around 1933, Kern began writing for films. Some of his best-known film scores include Roberta, Swing Time, Lady Be Good and Cover Girl. While working on MGM's tribute to his
music, Till the Clouds Roll By, Kern died on November 11, 1945 of a cerebral thrombosis. But his music lives on.
Jerome Kern wrote more than 1000 songs and 100 complete scores. Some of his best-known work is listed below:
Broadway:
The Earl and the Girl (1905)
How'd You Like to Spoon with Me?
The Girl from Utah (1914)
They Didn't Believe Me
Oh Boy (1917)
Till the Clouds Roll By
Leave It to Jane (1917)
The Siren's Song
Cleopatterer
Sally (1920)
Look for the Silver Lining
Whip-Poor-Will
Good Morning Dearie (1921)
Ka-Lu-A
Sunny (1925)
Sunny
Who?
Show Boat (1927)
Bill
Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
Cap'n Andy's Ballyhoo
Gallivantin' Around
I Have the Room Above
I Might Fall Back on You
I Still Suits Me
Life Upon the Wicked Stage
Make Believe
Ol' Man River
Where's the Mate for Me (Gambler's Song)
Why Do I Love You?
You Are Love
Sweet Adeline (1929)
Don't Ever Leave Me
Why Was I Born?
Cat and the Fiddle (1931)
Crystal Candelabra, The
Don't Tell Us Not to Sing
Ha Cha Cha
I Watch the Love Parade
Impressions in a Harlem Flat
New Love Is Old, A
Night Was Made for Love, The
One Moment Alone
Poor Pierrot
She Didn't Say Yes
Try to Forget
Music in the Air (1932)
I've Told Ev'ry Little Star
The Song Is You
Roberta (1933)
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
The Touch of Your Hand
Yesterdays
Very Warm for May (1939)
All the Things You Are
Hollywood:
Roberta (1935)
I Won't Dance
Lovely to Look At
I Dream Too Much (1935)
I Dream Too Much
Swing Time (1936)
A Fine Romance
Pick Yourself Up
Waltz in Swing Time
The Way You Look Tonight ( AA)
High, Wide and Handsome (1937)
The Folks Who Live on the Hill
Can I Forget You
Joy of Living (1938)
You Couldn't Be Cuter
One Night in the Tropics (1940)
Remind Me
Lady Be Good (1941)
The Last Time I Saw Paris ( AA)
You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
Dearly Beloved
I'm Old Fashioned
You Were Never Lovelier
Can't Help Singing (1944)
Any Moment Now
Californ-i-ay
Can't Help Singing
Cover Girl (1944)
Long Ago (And Far Away)
Put Me to the Test (new lyric)
Sure Thing
Centennial Summer (1946)
In Love in Vain
All Through the Day
Compositions used in films on Class Act:
All in Fun
All the Things You Are
Alter-Ego Dance
Any Moment Now
Asi se Besa
Bill
Bojangles of Harlem
Californ-i-ay
Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
Can't Help Singing
Cap'n Andy's Ballyhoo
Cleopatterer
Cotton Blossom
Cover Girl
Crystal Candelabra, The
D'Ya Love Me
Dearly Beloved
Don't Ever Leave Me
Don't Tell Us Not to Sing
Elbow Room
Fine Romance, A
Gallivantin' Around
Ha Cha Cha
Here Am I
How'd You Like to Spoon with Me?
I Have the Room Above
I Might Fall Back on You
I Still Suits Me
I Watch the Love Parade
I Won't Dance
I'll Be Hard to Handle
I'm Old Fashioned
Impressions in a Harlem Flat
In Other Words, Seventeen
Ka-Lu-A
Lafayette
Land Where the Good Songs Go, The
Last Time I Saw Paris, The
Leave It to Jane
Let's Begin
Life Upon the Wicked Stage
Lonely Feet
Long Ago (And Far Away)
Look for the Silver Lining
Lovely to Look At
Make Believe
Make Way for Tomorrow
Molly O'Donohue
More and More
Never Gonna Dance
New Love Is Old, A
Night Was Made for Love, The
Ol' Man River
One Moment Alone
One More Dance
Opening Night
Oriental Moon
Pick Yourself Up
Play Us a Polka Dot
Poor Pierrot
Pretty Jenny Lee
Put Me to the Test (new lyric)
Reckless
Sally
She Didn't Say Yes
Shorty George
Show Must Go On, The
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Sunny
Sure Thing
Swing Your Sweetheart
That Lucky Fellow
They Didn't Believe Me
Till the Clouds Roll By
Touch of Your Hand, The
Try to Forget
Turkey Trot
'Twas Not So Long Ago
Waltz in Swing Time
Way You Look Tonight, The
We Were So Young
Wedding in the Spring
Where's the Mate for Me (Gambler's Song)
Who?
Who's Complaining
Why Do I Love You
Why Was I Born
Wild Rose, The
Yesterdays
You Are Love
You Were Never Lovelier
You're Devastating
You're Here and I'm Here
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Kernell, William
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Khachaturian, Aram
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Kharito, Nicholas
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Kilmer (Alfred) Joyce (1886 - 1918)
American Poet born in New Brunswick, New Jersey
Killed in France during World War I
Compositions used in films on Class Act:
Trees
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King, Charles E.
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King, Jack
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King, Pee Wee
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King, Stoddard
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Kingsley, Dorothy
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Kipling, Rudyard
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Klages, Raymond
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Klauber, Marcy
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Klein, Lou
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Knauff, George. P.
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Knight, J. P.
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Knight, Vickie
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Knopf, Edwin H.
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Knox, Buddy
Compositions used in films on Class Act:
Hula Love
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Ted Koehler (1894 - 1973)
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