Word: starlight
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Dates: during 1973-1973
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...composed the music and lyrics for 281 songs, wrote 27 plays, a novel, five books of short stories and two volumes of autobiography. Amazingly, he could not read music. He hummed and whistled his tunes, and then played them by ear. One group of numbers is misty-eyed romantic, starlight-in-champagne (I'll Follow My Secret Heart, Zigeuner, Someday I'll Find You). The other group pinches a satiric nerve with droll spoofery (Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Don't Put Your Daughter on the Stage, Mrs. Worthington). As a lyricist, Coward was a direct descendant...