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Jerome Kern

Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A Fine Romance", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "All the Things You Are", "The Way You Look Tonight", "Long Ago (and Far Away)" and "Who?". He collaborated with many of the leading librettists and lyricists of his era, including George Grossmith Jr., Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Dorothy Fields, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin and E. Y. Harburg.

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Song	Album	Duration
A Fine Romance	Oscar Peterson Trio Plays the Standards 2016	3:07
A Fine Romance	Classic Movie & Show Tunes from Rare Piano Rolls 1996	3:06
A Fine Romance	Top Hat White Tie & Tails 1995	3:05
A Fine Romance	Songbook: The Song Is You 2006
All Through the Night	Top Hat White Tie & Tails 1995	3:08
All the Things You Are	Very Warm for May [Original Broadway Cast] 1985	1:59
All the Things You Are	Very Warm for May [Original Broadway Cast] [Bonus Track] 1985	1:59
All the Things You Are	Songbook: The Song Is You
All the Things You Are	Classic Movie & Show Tunes from Rare Piano Rolls 1996	3:24
All the Things You Are	Great Songwriters [Soho] 2003
All the Things You Are	The Best of Tony Martin: The Mercury Years 1996	3:12
All the Things You Are	As Time Goes By 2000	3:11
All the Things You Are	Unknown Album	2:58
All the Things You Are (Reprise)	Carousel of American Music 1997	2:30
Can I Forget You?	Till the Clouds Roll By: The Songs of Jerome Kern 2001	2:55
Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man	Show Boat - Von Stade, Stratas, McGlinn 2006
Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man	Show Boat	4:21
Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man	Show Boat [1959 London Studio Cast Recording] 1959	4:21
Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man	Unknown Album	3:19
Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man	Songbook: The Song Is You 2006
Can't Help Loving Dat Man	Definitive Collection 1956-62 2017	4:18
Change Partners	Top Hat White Tie & Tails 1995	3:11
Dearly Beloved	Till the Clouds Roll By: The Songs of Jerome Kern 2001	2:39
Dearly Beloved	Unknown Album	2:39
*Dearly Beloved []**	Till the Clouds Roll By [Prism] 1950	2:39
Fine Romance	Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers at RKO 1998
I Used to Be Color Blind	Astaire Story 2017	4:14
I Used to Be Color Blind	Let's Face the Music [Avid] 1996	3:06
I Used to Be Color Blind	Unknown Album	2:59
I Used to Be Color Blind	The Astaire Story 1954	4:14
I Used to Be Color Blind	Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers at RKO 1998
I Won't Dance	Till the Clouds Roll By: The Songs of Jerome Kern 2001	3:03
I Won't Dance	Songbook: The Song Is You 2006
I Won't Dance	Unknown Album	3:03
I'm Old Fashioned	You'll See 2019	3:48
I'm Old Fashioned	Too Marvelous for Words: 24 Songs of Johnny Mercer 1997	2:26
I'm Old Fashioned	Songbook: The Song Is You 2006
*I'm Old Fashioned []**	Till the Clouds Roll By [Prism] 1950	2:27
In Love in Vain	Songbook: The Song Is You
Life Upon the Wicked Stage	Show Boat	3:18
Life Upon the Wicked Stage	Till the Clouds Roll By [Prism] 1950	2:32
Life on the Wicked Stage	Show Boat - Von Stade, Stratas, McGlinn 2006
Little Girl, You Are Safe with Me	Show Boat - Von Stade, Stratas, McGlinn 2006
Long Ago	Sentimental Journey [Disky] 1999
Long Ago (And Far Away)	A Jerome Kern Songbook [Concord] 1997	3:48
Long Ago (And Far Away)	Unknown Album	3:23
Long Ago (And Far Away)	Songbook: The Song Is You 2006
Long Ago (And Far Away), song (from the film "Cover Girl") [From Cover	Jerome Kern: Life Upon The Wicked Stage 2002	3:04
Long Ago and Far Away	Oscar Peterson Trio Plays the Standards 2016	2:34
Look for the Silver Lining	Classic Movie & Show Tunes from Rare Piano Rolls 1996	2:06
Look for the Silver Lining	Till the Clouds Roll By: The Songs of Jerome Kern 2001	2:59
Look for the Silver Lining	Songbook: The Song Is You 2006
Look for the silver lining	The Musicality of Kern 2002	3:08
Lovely to Look At	Unknown Album	3:01
Make Believe	Show Boat	4:45
Make Believe	Songbook: The Song Is You 2006
Never Gonna Dance	Top Hat, White Tie & Tails [ASV/Living Era] 2002	3:13
Never Gonna Dance	Let's Face the Music and Dance: Greatest Hits [Halcyon] 2016	3:05
Never Gonna Dance	Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers at RKO 1998
Never Gonna Dance [From "Swing Time"]	The Magic of the Musicals: 211 Track Collection 2009	3:15
Never Gonna Dance [From Swing Time]	Essential Collection 2006	3:14
Ol' Man River	Carousel of American Music 1997	2:59
Ol' Man River	Broadway's Fabulous Phantoms 2005	4:49
Ol' Man River	Show Boat - Von Stade, Stratas, McGlinn 2006
Ol' Man River	The V-Discs: Columbia Years: 1943-45 1994	4:10
Ol' Man River	Songbook: The Song Is You
Ol' Man River	Show Boat	4:41
Ol' Man River	Till the Clouds Roll By: The Songs of Jerome Kern 2001	4:18
Ol' Man River	A Jerome Kern Songbook [Concord] 1997	4:50
Ol' Man River	Till the Clouds Roll By [Prism] 1950	3:00
Ol' Man River	Unknown Album	4:10
Ol'man river	The Musicality of Kern 2002	6:38
Overture	Show Boat - Von Stade, Stratas, McGlinn 2006
Pick Yourself Up	Oscar Peterson Trio Plays the Standards 2016	2:08
Pick Yourself Up	Let's Face the Music [Avid] 1996	2:58
Pick Yourself Up	American Legends, No. 15: Jerome Kern 1996
Pick Yourself Up	Songbook: The Song Is You 2006
*Pick Yourself Up []**	Till the Clouds Roll By [Prism] 1950	2:57
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes	Carousel of American Music 1997	1:37
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes	Songbook: The Song Is You
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes	Legends & Songwriters in Concert 1941 1998	1:24
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes	Oscar Peterson Trio Plays the Standards 2016	2:45
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes	Classic Movie & Show Tunes from Rare Piano Rolls 1996	1:50
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes	Yesterdays! The Unforgettable Music of Jerome Kern 1996	3:05
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes	A Jerome Kern Songbook [Concord] 1997	3:41
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes	Till the Clouds Roll By: The Songs of Jerome Kern 2001	3:25
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes	Unknown Album	3:25
The Folks Who Live on the Hill [From High, Wide and Handsome]	Sings Songs of Jerome Kern with Dick Hyman at the Piano 1995	5:24
The Last Time I Saw Paris	Classic Movie & Show Tunes from Rare Piano Rolls 1996	3:27
The Last Time I Saw Paris	Unknown Album	3:11
The Song Is You	Oscar Peterson Trio Plays the Standards 2016	3:02
The Song Is You	Swing Decade, Vol. 2 2013	3:06
The Song Is You	Greatest Hits of the 1930s, Vol. 2 2013	3:06
The Song Is You	A Jerome Kern Songbook [Concord] 1997	7:28
The Song Is You	Oldies of 30s 2013	3:06
The Song Is You	Greatest Hits of the 1930s 2013	3:06
The Song Is You	Till the Clouds Roll By: The Songs of Jerome Kern 2001	3:05
The Song Is You	Unknown Album	3:05
The Song Is You, song (from "Music in the Air") [From Music in the Air]	Jerome Kern: Life Upon The Wicked Stage 2002	3:42
The Way You Look Tonight	Swing Time 1989
The Way You Look Tonight	Oscar Peterson Trio Plays the Standards 2016	3:38
The Way You Look Tonight	A Jerome Kern Songbook [Concord] 1997	5:24
The Way You Look Tonight	Top Hat White Tie & Tails 1995	3:08
The Way You Look Tonight	Till the Clouds Roll By: The Songs of Jerome Kern 2001	3:07
Villain Dance	Show Boat - Von Stade, Stratas, McGlinn 2006
Way You Look Tonight	Songbook: The Song Is You 2006
Where's the Mate for Me?	Show Boat - Von Stade, Stratas, McGlinn 2006
Who	Till the Clouds Roll By [Prism] 1950	2:49
Who?	Till the Clouds Roll By: The Songs of Jerome Kern 2001	3:16
Who?	Songbook: The Song Is You 2006
Why Was I Born?	Songbook: The Song Is You
Why Was I Born?	Till the Clouds Roll By [Soundtrack Factory] 1950	1:59
Yesterdays	A Jazz Reality Show 2015	8:08
Yesterdays	Songbook: The Song Is You
Yesterdays	Yesterdays! The Unforgettable Music of Jerome Kern 1996	3:19
Yesterdays	Till the Clouds Roll By: The Songs of Jerome Kern 2001	3:15
Yesterdays	Unknown Album	3:15
Yesterdays, song (from "Roberta")	Pick It Up: Jazz Tune Arrangements 2007	6:06

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