Composer
Richard Rodgers
American composer of songs and Broadway musicals (1902–1979)
516 works in the index
- Born
- 0
- Died
- 0
- Birthplace
- Queens
- Citizenship / historical state
- United States
- Period (estimated from birth year)
- Modern
Biography
Richard Rodgers, the musical half of the two most successful words-and-music collaborations in Broadway history, was appropriately a child of New York City, born there not long after the start of the 20th century. He spent the 1920s and 1930s composing music for the lyrics of Lorenz Hart. The musicals they wrote together included Dearest Enemy (1925), A Connecticut Yankee (1927), Babes in Arms (1937) and Pal Joey (1940). Pal Joey is perhaps the best-remembered of these today. It was turned into a movie in 1957, starring Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth, and Kim Novak. Sings included “I Didn’t Know What Time It Was,” “Bewitched,” “The Lady is a Tramp,” and “There’s a Small Hotel.” After personal differences drove Rodgers and Hart apart, Rodgers teamed up instead with Oscar Hammerstein, and worked with him on another string of hits, redefining Broadway, until Hammerstein’s death in 1960. Rodgers died in late 1979. The obituary in The New York Times said that his name had come to represent “the evolution of American musical comedy into an art form of stature.”
In this catalogue
- Common listed instruments
- Piano, Voice, Vocal, Guitar, bass
- Genres represented
- pop, Jazz, Classical, Pop, Broadway
- Works with composition dates
- 0 of 516
These details describe the indexed sheet music, including arrangements.
Catalogue
Works page 5 of 11
Years are composition dates where known. Instruments describe editions in our catalogue and may include arrangements. A dash means the detail is not recorded.
| Work | Year composed | Catalogue / opus | Key in title | Listed instruments | Genre | Editions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All I Owe Ioway | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | pop | 3 |
| A Puzzlement | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | pop | 4 |
| Cinderella Waltz | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice | pop | 3 |
| Don't Marry Me | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | pop | 3 |
| Fan Tan Fanny | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | pop | 3 |
| Gliding Through My Memoree | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | pop | 3 |
| Grant Avenue | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | pop | 3 |
| I Am Going To Like It Here | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | pop | 3 |
| I'm Your Girl | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | pop | 3 |
| It May Be A Good Idea | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | pop | 3 |
| Keep It Gay | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | pop | 3 |
| Marriage Type Love | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | pop | 3 |
| More Than Just A Friend | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | pop | 3 |
| My Best Love | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | pop | 3 |
| Never Say 'No' | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | pop | 3 |
| The Next Time It Happens | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | pop | 3 |
| One Foot, Other Foot | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | pop | 3 |
| Sunday | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | pop | 3 |
| Suzy Is A Good Thing | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | pop | 3 |
| Sweet Thursday | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | pop | 3 |
| This Isn't Heaven | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | pop | 3 |
| We Deserve Each Other | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | pop | 3 |
| What A Lovely Day For A Wedding | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | pop | 3 |
| Willing And Eager | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | pop | 3 |
| Winters Go By | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | pop | 3 |
| Chop Suey | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | pop | 3 |
| The Other Generation | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | pop | 3 |
| It's Me | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | pop | 3 |
| You Never Had It So Good | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | pop | 3 |
| When I Go Out Walking With My Baby | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | pop | 3 |
| The Shortest Day of the Year | — | — | — | Piano, Vocal | pop | 2 |
| You Mustn't Kick It Around | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | pop | 3 |
| A Ship Without A Sail | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Vocal | pop | 4 |
| Why Can't I? | — | — | — | Piano, Vocal | Jazz, pop | 2 |
| All er Nuthin' | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | Classical, Pop, Broadway | 3 |
| Babes in Arms | — | — | — | Piano, Vocal | Classical, Pop | 2 |
| The Little Things in Texas | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | Classical, Pop | 3 |
| An Old Man | — | — | — | Piano, Voice | pop | 5 |
| Something, Somewhere | — | — | — | Piano, Voice | pop | 4 |
| You Have Got To Have A Rudder On The Ark | — | — | — | Piano, Voice | pop | 5 |
| Something Doesn't Happen | — | — | — | Piano, Voice | pop | 5 |
| Thank You So Much | — | — | — | Piano, Voice, Vocal | pop | 4 |
| Nobody Told Me | — | — | — | Piano, Voice | pop | 5 |
| Tell Me | — | — | — | Piano, Voice, Vocal | pop | 2 |
| A This Weekmericans | — | — | — | — | pop | 3 |
| What Do We Do? We Fly! | — | — | — | Voice | pop | 3 |
| Masquerade Brawl | — | — | — | Voice | pop | 3 |
| The Guadalcanal March | — | — | — | — | pop | 3 |
Biographical record: Wikidata, matched on name and checked against dates held in the catalogue. The period label is an estimate from birth year. Authority record: VIAF 113475079. Portrait: Rodgers_and_Hammerstein_and_Berlin_and_Tamiris_NYWTS.jpg : Al Aumuller, World Telegram staff photographer derivative work: — The Man in Question (gesprec) · (forðung), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.