I read somewhere that when Mrs. Hammerstein over heard someone say how beautiful Jerome Kern's "Ol' Man River" was she turned around and remarked "Jerome Kern wrote 'Dun Dun Dun-Dun' My husband wrote Ol' Man River.
This is one of my absolute favorites. It's from the Broadway musical Show Boat Which opened on December 27th 1927, and was made into a movie in 1936 in which Paul Robeson gavce one of the most famous renditions of this song. Later it was sung by Frank Sinatra in "Till the Clouds Roll By" (1946) a biopic about Jerome Kern. Then in 1951 Showboat was remade and the song was performed by William Warfield. Judy Garland also gave a very powerful performance of this song in the 1960s on her own television series. Here are the latter 4 of those recordings mentioned.
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