Word: lyricist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cheeriest musical in years. Based on the 1957 Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night, it is meant to be all champagne and Mozart, laughter and elegance. "We decided that the songs should bubble and that they should be dry, unsentimental and unsoulful," says Stephen Sondheim, the composer-lyricist who has collaborated with Prince on four shows...
Died. Andy Razaf, 77, lyricist whose hits included Honeysuckle Rose, Ain't Misbehavin', Stompin' at the Savoy and Milkman's Matinee; in Los Angeles. The son of a Madagascan nobleman, Razaf (real name: Andrea Paul Razafkeriefo) was born in Washington, D.C., after his father had been killed and his mother had fled during a French invasion of Madagascar in 1895. He wrote more than 1,000 songs during the '20s and '30s and in 1972 was elected to the Songwriters Hall of Fame...
Died. Walter E. ("Jack") Rollins, 66, country-and-western lyricist whose biggest hits were the kiddie favorites Peter Cottontail, Smokey the Bear and Frosty the Snow Man; of lung cancer; in Cincinnati...
Sophia Loren is a ravishing Dulcinea, but she seems to be playing a kind of high-stepping variation on Two Wom en. James Coco is soundly defeated by the role of Sancho Panza. The score by Composer Mitch Leigh and Lyricist Joe Darion contains the inescapable ballad The Impossible Dream, surely the most mercilessly lachrymose hymn to empty-headed optimism since Carousel's You'll Never Walk Alone. One expects to learn at any moment that it will be come the national anthem of some newly emerging nation...
...decades later, New York's front doors began opening to Blake as the composer of such Negro-flavored Broadway musicals as Elsie and Chocolate Dandies. His biggest hit was a startlingly original synthesis of ragtime and operetta called Shuffle Along. Written with Blake's old vaudeville partner, Lyricist Noble Sissle, Shuffle ran for 18 months in 1921-22 and introduced both jazz dancing and Josephine Baker to Broadway. Two of his show tunes were destined to become standards in the pop world and steady royalty producers for him: Memories of You and I'm Just Wild About...