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...talk you would think Irving Berlin and Cole Porter were the only two songwriters living. I'll take Jule Styne over both of them overrated buffoons. The score to High Button Shoes is truly great...
...songs together, sold 6,000,000 copies of sheet music, made the hit parade two dozen times and first place nine times (among their hits: I'll Walk Alone; It's Been a Long, Long Time; Give Me Five Minutes More.) They earn $150,000 a year. Jule, who was born in London 42 years ago, was a piano prodigy who was guest soloist with the Detroit Symphony at eight. Sammy, 35, was brought up on the sidewalks of New York, set a hooky record at Seward Park High School"which still stands." He was already a successful...
...they are inseparable, buzz in & out of each other's houses, often leave their wives twiddling their thumbs at the gin rummy table while they rush to the piano with an idea. Each considers the other, in Hollywoodese, a "great genius." Sammy likes to say that Jule writes "a warm tune" and "lets the melody go where it wants to go." But, says Jule: "I always give the pros a chance to use their voices, usually at the end so the public knows when to stand up and clap...
...Says Sammy: "They're damned careful to sing it the way we wrote it when we're staring 'em in the face. Lotsa singers don't know the proper phrasing and even lose a rhyme. So we gotta be around to protect our baby." Says Jule: "Nobody's going to improve our songs to death...
Give 'em what they understand; don't try to elevate them." Adds Jule: "You gotta write for the people . . . Art is great, sure . . . but who can sing Shostakovich...