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Wrote over 700 songs for dozens of Broadway musicals and Hollywood films. Jerome Kern was born in New York City on January 27, 1885. Growing up in the middle-class atmosphere of East 56th Street, he attended public schools.
By THE NEW YORK TIMES. Jerome Kern, the composer, died yesterday at 1:10 P.M. of a cerebral hemorrhage in Doctors Hospital. His age was 60. At the bedside were his wife, Eva Leale Kern; his...
Jerome David Kern was born in 1885. He began his stage career grafting American songs (for which he wrote the music) into imported European operettas. His breakthrough came with the song "They Didn't Believe Me", written (with lyrics by Edward Laska ) for a show called "The Girl from Utah".
Dec 31, 2020 · Meet Jerome Kern. Jerome Kern (1885-1945) wrote “They Didn’t Believe Me” for a Broadway show called The Girl from Utah in 1914. The song consisted of sixteen bars, half the length of the standards to come. But Kern’s melody and its harmonic and rhythmical possibilities made it the prototype of the modern ballad.
When Jerome Kern died in 1945, America lost one of its greatest and most beloved composers.
Jerome Kern. Legendary American composer Jerome Kern ( b. New York, NY, 27 January 1885; d. New York, NY, 11 November 1945) left a legacy of over seven hundred songs, presented over four decades in more than one hundred stage productions and Hollywood films. His best-known work, Show Boat, with adaptation and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II ...
Jerome Kern was one of the most significant composers for Broadway and Hollywood. With his string of Princess Theater musicals, the immortal musical Show Boat (1927), and his songs for stage and screen, Kern in many ways defined the American popular song.
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