LORENZ HART
Lorenz Hart (May 2, 1895 – November 22, 1943) was the lyricist half of the Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. Some of his more famous lyrics include “Blue Moon”, “Mountain Greenery”, “The Lady Is a Tramp”, “Manhattan”, “Where or When”, “Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered”, “Falling in Love with Love”, “Have You Met Miss Jones?”, “My Funny Valentine”, “I Could Write a Book”, “This Can’t Be Love”, “With a Song in My Heart”, “It Never Entered My Mind”, and “Isn’t It Romantic?”. (More from Wikipedia)
In my last post, I was mostly talking about solo songwriters like Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, but writing songs is primarily a collaborative profession. In many cases, the music and the lyrics would be written separately. Richard Rodgers was a towering figure in writing music for Broadway shows and other productions; he primarily worked with two different lyricists over the years, Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II.
(April 2015/1)
