II Dr. K’s Song Stories A collection of popular Songs and how and/or why they were written. Table of Contents Preface - 2 Rodgers, Richard - 3 Oklahoma – 1943 - 4 Oh What a Beautiful Morning – 1943 - 5 People will Say We’re in Love – 1943 - 6 Surrey with the Fringe on Top – 1943 - 6 Carousel – 1945 - 6 You’ll Never Walk Alone – 1945 - 7 If I Loved You – 1945 - 7 Allegro – 1947 - 7 A Fella Needs a Girl – 1947 - 8 South Pacific – 1949 - 8 Some Enchanted Evening – 1949 - 8 Younger then Springtime – 1949 - 8 This Nearly was Mine – 1949 - 9 Bali Hai – 1949 - 9 Songs From Other Shows - 9 Manhattan – 1925 - 9 My Heart Stood Still – 1927 - 9 With a Song in My Heart – 1929 - 10 Dancing on the Ceiling - 1930 - 10 Blue Moon – 1934 -10 My Romance & The Most Beautiful Girl in the World – 1935 - 11 Easy to Remember – 1935 - 11 My Funny Valentine – 1937 -11 Where or When – 1937 - 11 I Married an Angel – 1938 - 11 Falling in Love with Love – 1938 - 11 I Could Write a Book – 1940 - 11 Thou Swell - 1943 - 11 It Might as Well be Spring – 1945 - 12 No Other Love – 1952 – 12 Edelwiess – 1959 – 12 There’s a Small Hotel – 1936 - 12 III Whiting, Richard - 13 Till We Meet Again – 1918 - 13 My Ideal – 1930 - 14 On the Good Ship Lollipop – 1934 - 14 Warren, Harry - 14 Lullaby of Broadway – 1934 - 15 I Got a Gal in Kalamazoo – 1937 - 16 September in the Rain – 1937 - 16 Jeepers, Creepers – 1938 - 16 Chattanooga Choo Choo – 1941 - 17 You’ll Never Know – 1943 - 17 That’s Amore – 1952 - 17 Arlen, Harold - 19 I Love a Parade – 1931 - 20 I’ve Got the World on a String – 1932 - 20 Let’s Fall in Love – 1933 - 20 It’s Only a Paper Moon – 1933 - 20 Stormy Weather – 1939 - 21 Wizard of Oz - 21 Over the Rainbow – 1939 - 21 Blues in the Night – 1941 – 22 Accentuate the Possitive - 22 Come Rain or Come Shine – 1946 - 22 Gershwin, George - 22 Swanee – 1919 - 23 I’ll Build a Staircase to Paradise – 1922 - 23 Somebody Loves Me – 1924 - 24 Fascinating Rhythm – 1924 - 24 The Man I Love – 1924 - 24 Someone to Watch Over Me – 1926 - 24 Soon – 1927 - 24 I’ve Got a Crush on You – 1928 - 25 Lisa– 1929 - 25 Embraceable You – 1930 - 25 But Not For me – 1930 - 25 I’m Bidin’ My Time - 1930 - 25 I’ve Got Rhythm – 1930 - 25 Of Thee I Sing – 1931 - 26 Porgy and Bess - 26 Summertime – 1934 - 26 It Ain’t Necessarily So – 1934 - 27 Bess, You is My Woman Now – 1934 - 27 Our Love is Here to Stay – 1935 - 27 Foggy Day – 1937 - 27 IV They Can’t Take That Away From Me – 1937 - 27 Love Walked In – 1938 - 27 Styne, Jules - 28 Sammy Cahn - 29 Sunday – 1926 - 29 I Don’t Want to Walk Without You – 1941 - 30 I’ve Heard That Song Before – 1942 - 30 There Goes That Song Again – 1944 - 31 Saturday Night is the Loneliest Night of the Week – 1944 - 31 I’ll Walk Alone – 1944 - 31 It’s Been a Long, Long Time – 1945 - 31 Let it Snow – 1945 - 32 The Things We Did Last Summer – 1945 - 32 Five Minutes More – 1946 - 32 Time After Time – 1947 - 32 It’s Magic – 1948 - 33 Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend – 1949 - 33 Bye, Bye Baby – 1949 - 33 Every Street’s a Boulevard in Old New York – 1953 - 33 How Do You Speak to an Angel – 1954 - 34 Three Coins in a Fountain – 1954 - 34 Just in Time – 1956 - 34 The Party’s Over – 1956 - 34 Together, Wherever We Go – 1958 - 34 Everything’s Coming Up Roses – 1958 - 35 Small World – 1958 - 35 Let Me Entertain You – 1958 - 35 People – 1964 – 35 Call Me Irresponsible - 1963 - 35 Loesser, Frank - 36 Baby, It’s Cold Outside – 1944 - 36 What Are You Doing New Years Eve – 1947 - 37 Slow Boat to China – 1948 - 37 Where’s Charley – 1948 - 37 Amy – 1948 - 37 A Bushel and a Peek – 1950 - 38 Charmicael, Hoagy - 38 Stardust – 1926 - 39 Georgia on My Mind – 1930 - 40 Up a Lazy River – 1931 - 40 Lazy Bones – 1933 - 40 The Nearness of You – 1937 - 41 Two Sleepy People – 1938 - 41 I Get Alone without You – 1939 - 41 Skylark – 1942 - 41 V Old Buttermilk Sky – 1946 - 42 In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening – 1954 - 43 Berlin, Irving - 43 Alexander’s Ragtime Band – 1911 -43 Mandy – 1919 - 44 All Alone – 1924 - 44 Always – 1925 - 44 Blue Skies – 1927 - 45 Puttin’ on the Ritz – 1929 - 45 How Deep is the Ocean – 1932 - 45 Easter Parade – 1933 (Smile and Show Your Dimple-1917) - 45 White Christmas – 1942 - 45 Annie Get Your Gun – 1946 - 47 There’s No Business Like Show Business – 1946 - 47 Anything You Can Do – 1946 - 47 The Girl That I Marry – 1946 – 47 You’re Just in Love – 1950 - 47 Porter, Cole - 48 What is This Thing Called Love – 1929 - 49 Love For Sale – 1930 - 49 Night and Day – 1932 - 49 Let’s Fall in Love (Porter) – 1933 - 49 Anything Goes – 1934 - 49 Begin the Beguine – 1935 - 49 Just One of Those Things – 1935 - 49 It’s De’lovely – 1936 - 49 Easy to Love – 1936 - 50 In the Still of the Night – 1937 - 50 My Heart Belongs to Daddy – 1938 - 50 I Love You – 1943 - 51 Everytime We Say Goodbye – 1944 - 51 Don’t Fence Me In – 1944 - 51 Wunderbar - 1948 - 51 From This Moment On – 1950 - 51 I Love Paris – 1953 - 51 All of You – 1954 - 52 True Love – 1856 - 52 Ellington, Duke - 52 Solitude – 1934 - 53 In a Mellotone – 1940 - 53 “A” Train – 1941 - 53 Don’t Get Around Much Anymore – 1942 - 53 Perdido – 1942 - 54 Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me – 1943 - 54 Satin Doll – 1953 - 55 VI Kern, Jerome - 55 They Didn’t Believe Me – 1914 - 55 Who – 1925 - 56 Showboat - 56 Bill – 1918/1927 - 57 Old Man River – 1927 - 57 Why Do I Love You – 1927 - 58 I’ve Told Every Little Star – 1932 - 58 Roberta – 1933 - 58 Smoke Gets in Your Eyes – 1933 - 59 Just the Way You Look Tonight – 1936 - 59 All The Things You Are – 1939 - 59 The Last Time I Saw Paris – 1940 - 59 Dearly Beloved – 1942 - 60 Long Ago and Far Away – 1944 - 60 Van Huesen, Jimmy - 61 Swinging on a Star – 1944 - 62 Nancy – 1944 - 62 Kennedy, Jimmy - 63 Isle of Capri – 1934 - 64 Red Sails in the Sunset – 1935 - 64 Harbor Lights – 1937 - 64 My Prayer – 1939 - 64 South of the Border – 1939 - 65 Teddy Bear’s Picnic – 1947 - 65 April in Portugal – 1947 - 66 McHugh, Jimmy - 67 Comin’ in on a Wing and a Prayer – 1943 - 69 I Can’t give You Anything but Love – 1928 – 69 On the Sunny Side of the Street – 1930 - 70 Weiss, George - 69 Oh What it Seemed to Be – 1944 - 71 What a Wonderful World – 1967 - 71 Sigman, Carl - 72 Ebb Tide – 1937 - 74 Civilization – 1947 - 74 Penna 6-5000 – 1950 - 74 It’s All in the Game – 1958 - 75 Love Story – 1970 - 75 Livingston, Jay & Evans, Ray - 76 To Each His Own – 1946 - 76 Buttons and Bows – 1948 - 77 Mona Lisa– 1950 - 77 The Greatest Inventor of Them All – 1950 - 77 Que Sera, Sera – 1956 - 77 VII Tammy – 1957 – 78 Bonanza – 1959 - 78 Livingston, Jerry - 78 Mairzy Doats – 1942 - 79 12th of Never – 1957 – 79 Lawrence, Jack - 80 If I Didn’t Care – 1938 - 80 All or Nothing at All – 1939 - 80 Ciribirbin – 1939 - 81 Sleepy Lagoon – 1940 - 81 Beyond the Sea – 1943 - 81 Johnson Rag – 1943 - 82 Symphony – 1945 - 82 Linda – 1946 - 83 Tenderly – 1946 - 83 Rainger, Ralph - 84 Love in Bloom – 1934 - 84 Thanks for the Memory – 1937 - 84 Green, Johnny - 85 Coquette – 1926 - 86 Body and Soul – 1930 – 86 Prisoner of Love – 1931 - 86 I Cover the Waterfront – 1933 - 87 Fain, Sammy - 87 I’ll Be Seeing You – 1938 - 89 Dear Hearts and Gentle People – 1949 - 89 Donaldson, Walter - 89 My Mammy – 1921 - 90 My Buddy – 1922 - 90 Yes Sir, That’s My Baby – 1925 - 90 My Blue Heaven – 1927 - 91 Love Me or Leave Me – 1927 - 91 You’re Driving Me Crazy – 1930 - 91 Duke, Vernon - 92 April in Paris – 1932 - 92 I Can’t Get Started – 1935 - 92 Taking a Chance on Love – 1940 - 93 Martin, Hugh - 93 Trolley Song – 1944 - 94 Wayne, Bernie – 94 Blue Velvet – 1951 - 94 Wenrich, Percy - 95 Old Gray Bonnet – 1909 - 96 Brown, Lew - 96 Birth of the Blues – 1926 - 96 VIII Sonny Boy – 1928 - 97 Songs of Old New Orleans- 97 Tin Roof Blues – 1964 - 97 Jelly Bean – 1920 – 98 Pretty Baby – c1915 - 98 Shimmy Like My Sister Kate - c1922 - 99 Sugar Blues – 1923 - 100 Muskrat Ramble – 1926 - 100 Basin Street Blues – 1928 - 101 Mood Indigo (Dreamy Blues) – 1931 – 101 Sophisticated Lady – 1933 - 101 Sleepy Time Down South – 1932 – 101 Willson, Meredith - 102 Till There Was You – 1950 - 103 May The Good Lord Bless and Keep You – 1950 - 103 Norworth, Jack - 104 Shine on Harvest Moon – 1903 - 104 Take Me Out to the Ballgame – 1908 - 104 Herbert, Victor - 107 Kiss Me Again - 1915 - 107 Friml, Rudolf - 108 Indian Love Call – 1924 - 109 Romberg, Sigmund - 109 One Alone – 1926 - 110 Coward, Noel - 110 Room With a View – 1928 - 110 I’ll See You Again – 1929 - 110 I’ll Follow My Secret Heart – 1933 - 110 Mad About the Boy – 1935 - 111 Schwartz, Arthur - 111 Something to Remember You By – 1918 - 111 Rock a bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody – 1918 - 112 I Guess I’ll Have to Change My Plans – 1929 - 112 Dancing in the Dark – 1931 - 112 You, the Night and the Music – 1934 - 112 Handy, W.