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Last broadcast on Sun, 4 Dec 2011, 19:00 on BBC Radio 2 (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
Barry Manilow looks at the second episode in Richard Rodger's career, his songwriting partnership with the lyricist and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II.
The grandson of theatre impresario Oscar Hammerstein, Oscar II was writing books and lyrics for Broadway musicals by the early 1920s. Among his early collaborators were Vincent Youmans, Rudolph Friml and Jerome Kern (with whom he wrote Showboat in 1927), before he formed his famous partnership with Richard in 1943.
During their 16-year collaboration, Rodgers and Hammerstein produced the enduring classics Oklahoma! Carousel, The King and I, The Sound of Music and the Pulitzer Prize-winning South Pacific.
After Hammerstein's death in 1960, Rodgers wrote his own lyrics to No Strings and collaborated with Stephen Sondheim on Do I Hear a Waltz. His last show was 1970's Two by Two.
Music played
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London Symphony Orchestra
— Overture to "South Pacific"Rodgers And Hammerstein: South Pacific, CBS, CD-42205 -
Alfred Drake — Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin'
Oklahomah! Original Broadway Cast, Naxos Musicals, 812-0787 -
Drake, Alfred & Broadway Cast Of Oklahoma — Oklahoma
Oklahoma/Showboat, ASV, CDAJA-5198 -
Blossom Dearie — The Surrey With A Fringe On Top
Once Upon A A Summertime, VERVE, 314-517 223-2 -
Studio Orchestra — The] Carousel Waltz
Carousel (Film Soundtrack, ANGEL, ZDM-0777764692 2 5 -
Dinah Washington
— If I Loved YouDinah Washington, DGR, NC 024071 -
Leslie Uggams — June is Bustin' Out All Over
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Katherine Jenkins
— You'll Never Walk AloneSecond Nature, UCJ, NA-NA -
Ezio Pinza — Some Enchanted Evening (South Pacific)
South Pacific: Original Broadway Cast, SONY BROADWAY, SK-53327 -
Gertrude Lawrence — Getting To Know You
Showstoppers, TAIR, CD-029 -
Morrow, Doretta & Larry Douglas — I Have Dreamed
The King And I & Kismet, LIVING ERA, CD AJA-5519 -
Yul Brynner — A Puzzlement
The King & I, ANGEL, 7243 5-27351 2 9 -
Peggy Wood — Climb Every Mountain
Sound Of Music, RCA, ND-90368 -
Julie Andrews — The Sound Of Music
Sound Of Music: Original Film Soundtrack, RCA, ND-90368 -
Andrews, Julie & Children — Do Re Mi
The Sound Of Music 35 Th Anniversary Collector's Edition, RCA, 07863-679722 -
Julie Andrews — I Have Confidence
The Sound Of Music, RCA, 07863-67972-2 -
Julie Andrews — The Sound Of Music
Sound Of Music: Original Film Soundtrack, RCA, ND-90368 -
Barry Manilow
— My Favourite ThingsA Christmas Gift Of Love, COLUMBIA, 510158-2
Broadcasts
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Tue 3 May 201122:00
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Sun 4 Dec 201119:00
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