Word: styne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (book by Joseph Fields & Anita Loos; music by Jule Styne; lyrics by Leo Robin) lets the famous Lorelei Lee of the '20s gold-dig once more-this time to music. The blonde is played by Carol Channing, who last season rocketed from nowhere to minor fame in Lend, an Ear. Last week she drew rave reviews; one critic ecstatically called her "the funniest female since Fanny Brice and Beatrice Lillie...
...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...
Walk Together. Messrs. Styne & Cahn are, after Rodgers & Hammerstein, perhaps the most successful songwriting team on Tin Pan Alley. In the seven years they have been partners, they have writ ten 150 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...
...little man shaped like a cigar stub played a few bars on the piano, trying out his tune on his new partner. Lyricist Sammy Cahn, who used to play fiddle in a burlesque house, grunted: "It seems to me I've heard that song before." Before Tunesmith Jule Styne could think of something nasty to reply, Sammy Cahn said hastily: "I mean it's a good title -I've Heard That Song Before." According to Messrs. Styne & Cahn, this is how the title to their first hit was born. Since then most of their major decisions...
High Button Shoes (book by Stephen Longstreet; music & lyrics by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn; produced by Monte Proser and Joseph Kipness) isn't a specially good show, but it's pretty often a gay one. A period musical (1913), it spins an amiably undisciplined yarn about a con man and his stooge (Phil Silvers and Joey Faye) who sell waterlogged real estate in New Brunswick, N.J., flee to Atlantic City, sneak back for a Rutgers-Princeton game, at the end are earnestly seeking fresh frauds and pitches...