“Seasons of Love” is a song from the 1996 Broadway musical Rent, written and composed by Jonathan Larson. The song starts with an ostinato piano motif, which provides the harmonicContinue readingSeasons of Love
Anything Goes
Anything Goes is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The original book was a collaborative effort by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse, revised considerably by theContinue readingAnything Goes
Someone to Watch Over Me
“Someone to Watch Over Me” is a 1926 song composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, assisted by Howard Dietz who penned the title. It was written forContinue readingSomeone to Watch Over Me
On the Street Where You Live
“On the Street Where You Live” is a song with music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner from the 1956 Broadway musical My Fair Lady. It isContinue readingOn the Street Where You Live
Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin
“Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’” is the opening song from the musical Oklahoma!, which premiered on Broadway in 1943. It was written by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist/librettist Oscar HammersteinContinue readingOh, What a Beautiful Mornin
A Charge to Keep I Have
“A Charge to Keep I Have” Charles Wesley. In their recent book, Presidential Praise: Our Presidents and Their Hymns (Mercer University Press, 2008), authors C. Edward Spann and Michael E.Continue readingA Charge to Keep I Have
Meet Me In St. Louis, Louis
“Meet Me In St. Louis, Louis” Composer Kerry Mills Lyricist Andrew B. Sterling “Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis”, better known as just “Meet Me in St. Louis”, is aContinue readingMeet Me In St. Louis, Louis
For Me and My Gal
“For Me and My Gal” is a 1917 popular standard song by George W. Meyer with lyrics by Edgar Leslie and E. Ray Goetz. Popular recordings of the song inContinue readingFor Me and My Gal
Omie Wise
Omie Wise or Naomi Wise (1789–1808) was an American murder victim who is remembered by a popular murder ballad about her death. Omie Wise’s death became the subject of aContinue readingOmie Wise
Home on the Range
Home on the Range” is a classic cowboy song, sometimes called the “unofficial anthem” of the American West. Dr. Brewster M. Higley (also spelled Highley) of Smith County, Kansas, wroteContinue readingHome on the Range