Posted on 08/08/2003 9:51:40 PM PDT by TBP
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:15:51 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
THIRTY-NINE pages of song lyrics by Lorenz Hart- almost all in the celebrated lyricist's own hand - have been discovered in a vault at the J.P. Morgan Chase Bank.
Most of the lyrics are of songs from shows Hart wrote with Richard Rodgers in the '20s. However, it also includes lyrics for songs for which the music was either lost or never written.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Hopefully, someone with some musical sense will take up the lyrics for which no music is known to exist and write the music for it, in the manner that Barry Manilow has become Johnny Mercer's great posthumous collaborator. It would help bring back the art of lyric writing. Maybe the art of writing good songs as well.
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