What are your Favorite Rodgers & Hart tunes?- Page 2

[allofmylife]

Posted: 12/22/15 at 7:54am

Not actually a Rodgers and HART because Larry had nothing to do with it, but "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" made the hair on the back of my neck stand straight up the first time I heard it. Nothing has ever been more evocative of the 1930s for me. I was instantly transported.

[mamaleh]

Posted: 12/22/15 at 2:54pm

Whoops, Mr. N., you're right, of course. My heart was on JUPITER and misdirected my brain from SYRACUSE.  
 

I need a GPS.

[Ranger Tom]

Posted: 12/22/15 at 11:08pm

Falling in Love with Love, My Romance, Zip, Isn't it Romantic.  Yum.

[OlBlueEyes]

Posted: 12/23/15 at 4:21am

Youtube is quite amazing. Here is the introduction to the world of "Isn't it Romantic" from the 1932 pre-Code film Love Me Tonight. A lot of film buffs think that the way the song is passed from Maurice Chevalier to Jeanette MacDonald is classic.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZsF2WjIzw0

 

This film also introduced "Lover," which was a big hit for the amazing Peggy Lee in the early 50s. Richard Rodgers hated the arrangement, and was not shy about telling her.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38iGvkH5Td4

[broadwaysfguy]

Posted: 12/23/15 at 10:47am

This film also introduced "Lover," which was a big hit for the amazing Peggy Lee in the early 50s. Richard Rodgers hated the arrangement, and was not shy about telling her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38iGvkH5Td4

 

Dang, young Peggy Lee was smokin' hot!

[broadwaysfguy]

Posted: 12/23/15 at 10:53am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx0K3_CBmDc

Lover by Margaret Whiting, such a different song with this arrangement, which im guessing was more to Hart's liking than the Peggy Lee version posted by OlBlue Eyes.....