Word: kerns
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Although Kern and Hammerstein were close friends, Hammerstein's loyal wife...
Dorothy could not abide hearing the composer praised at Oscar's expense. When people at parties referred to "Jerome Kern's Ol' Man River," she would snap: "Oscar Hammerstein wrote Ol' Man River...
...Jerome Kern wrote Ta-ta dumdum, Ta ta-ta dumdum...
...When Kern recovered, he was given an alternative...
From his home in Bronxville, N.Y., Jerome Kern would call up Hammerstein in Great Neck, L.I.; then he would set the phone on his piano and bang away at the keyboard while the greatest American operetta grew along the wires, as Oscar picked out the pure Kern from the blip-blap-bleep of the Bell System, and made preliminary notes for such Showboat masterpieces...