Jerome Kern (1885–1945)

Author of Swing Time [1936 film]

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About the Author

Jerome Kern was born in New York. In 1904 he became a pianist and a salesman for a publishing company. With his first song, "How'd You Like to Spoon with Me" (1905), Kern achieved success. His success as a composer came with his musical comedy The Red Petticoat (1912). In 1917 Kern produced seven show more shows on Broadway. He composed more than 60 works for the stage and wrote several motion picture scores. Among his most important musical comedies are Very Good, Eddie (1915), Have a Heart (1917), Head over Heels (1918), Stepping Stones (1923), and Sunny (1925). Show Boat (1927) was his most remarkable score and one of the finest American works of its genre. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Includes the names: Jerome David Kern, Jerome Kern (Reader's Digest)

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Works by Jerome Kern

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Swing Time [1936 film] (1936) — Composer; Music — 96 copies

Till the Clouds Roll By [1946 film] (1946) — Composer — 93 copies

Show Boat [vocal score] (1927) — Composer — 23 copies

Show Boat: Original 1988 Studio Cast Recording (1988) 22 copies

Show Boat (Piano/Vocal/Songbook) (1927) 20 copies

Show Boat: Original 1951 Motion Picture Soundtrack (2004) — Composer — 18 copies

The Way You Look Tonight (2001) — Music — 16 copies

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (from Roberta) (1933) 12 copies

Show Boat: 1962 Studio Cast Recording (2000) 12 copies

Show Boat: 1993 Toronto Cast Recording 10 copies

All the Things You Are (from Very Warm for May) (1939) 10 copies

The Jerome Kern Songbook (1955) 9 copies

Show Boat: 1966 Lincoln Centre Cast Recording (2009) 9 copies

Ol' Man River (from Show Boat) (1927) 9 copies

Album of Jerome Kern Songs: Volume Two (1940) 8 copies

Show Boat: Vocal Selection (1927) 8 copies

Jerome Kern Rediscovered (2000) — Composer — 7 copies

Jerome Kern Collection (1988) 7 copies

Make Believe (from Show Boat) (1901) 6 copies

Show Boat: 1971 London Cast Recording (1995) 6 copies

Jerome Kern Piano Solos (1988) 6 copies

The Best of Jerome Kern (1972) 5 copies

Can't Help Singing: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1996) 4 copies

Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man (from Show Boat) (1927) 4 copies

A Fine Romance (from Swing Time) (1936) 4 copies

Showboat; Broadway Musical Series — Composer — 4 copies

Very Warm For May: A Musical Comedy (1939 Original Broadway Cast) (1995) 3 copies

Look For the Silver Lining (from Sally) (1920) 3 copies

Bill (from Show Boat) 3 copies

Long Ago and Far Away (from Cover Girl) (1944) 3 copies

Lovely to Look At (from Roberta) (1935) 3 copies

Show Boat (performance of July 1972) 3 copies

Ka-Lu-A (From "Good Morning Dearie) (1921) 2 copies

Lovely to Look At (1952 Movie Soundtrack) 2 copies

The Way You Look To-night (Fred Estaire and Ginger Rogers on Cover, From "Swing Time") (1936) 2 copies

Can I Forget You (from High, Wide and Handsome) (1938) 2 copies

The Jessye Norman Collection (1989) 2 copies

Jerome Kern Flutes & Percussion [Vinyl LP Record] 2 copies

Silver Linings: Songs by Jerome Kern (2010) 2 copies

Ed Sullivan Presents Song and Music of Showboat (1959) 2 copies

The Way You Look Tonight (from Swingtime) (1936) 2 copies

Show boat and Lovely to look at : Selections from MGM Technicolor film (Original Cast Album) 2 copies

How'd You Like to Spoon With Me? (from Earl and the Girl) 2 copies

'Twas Not So Long Ago from "Sweet Adeline" (1929) 2 copies

Can I Forget You (1937) 2 copies

She Didn't Say "Yes" (From the musical The Cat And The Fiddle) 2 copies

I Won't Dance (1935) 2 copies

All The Things You Are: The Jerome Kern Songbook 2 copies

I'm Old Fashioned (2011) 2 copies

Music of Jerome Kern 2 copies

All the Things You are Very Warm for May a Musical Comedy (1940) 2 copies

Why Do I Love You? (from SHOW BOAT) (1927) 2 copies

You Are Love (from Show Boat) (1928) 2 copies

Yesterdays (from Roberta) (1933) 2 copies

You Couldn't Be Cuter (1938) 2 copies

Leave it to Jane 2 copies

The Last Time I Saw Paris 1 copy

Here am I from "Sweet Adeline" 1 copy

Don't Ever Leave Me 1 copy

In Egern on the Tegern See from "Music in the Air" 1 copy

Dearly Beloved - Song Suitable for Weddings (1942) 1 copy

Sunny from "Sunny" 1 copy

"Who" Sheet Music (1925) 1 copy

The Touch of Your Hand - Max Gordon Presents "Roberta" - Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach (1933) 1 copy

"Yesterdays" from the RKO picture "Roberta" (Sheet music featuring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers on cover) (1933) 1 copy

Remind Me (2011) 1 copy

The Song is You, from "Music in the Air" (1932) 1 copy

Kern: Show Boat - Broadway Show Album (complete 1927 score) 1 copy

I'M THE ECHO YOU'RE THE SONG THAT I SING 1 copy

D'ye Love Me? - song from the Broadway musical "Sunny" (1925) 1 copy

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes Piano Vocal Score (1933) 1 copy

Jerome Kern Songs Vol. 3 ; Piano Vocal Guitar (1993) 1 copy

Lonely Feet from "Sweet Adeline" 1 copy

The Big Show from "Head Over Heels" 1 copy

The Folks Who Live on the Hill (Irene Dunn and Randolph Scott on Cover) (From the Paramount Picture "High, Wide and… (1937) 1 copy

Why Was I Born, From Sweet Adeline (1929) 1 copy

They Didn't Believe Me by Herbert Teynolds and Jerome Kern Reintroduced by Rudy Vallee 1914 Sheet Music (1914) 1 copy

An evening with Jerome Kern : for chorus SATB and piano accompaniment (optional Guitar and bass) 1 copy

Way You Look To-night, The ; Chappell's Vocal Library of Part Songs ; Three-Part Chorus or Trio ; S.S.A. 1 copy

Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man 1 copy

A year from today 1 copy

Till The Clouds Roll By-Jerome Kern 1 copy

Before I met you 1 copy

R. R. Comstock and W. Elliott present the Fifth New York Princess musical production. Oh, Lady! Lady!! Book and lyrics… 1 copy

Bongo on the Congo 1 copy

Shufflin' Sam 1 copy

Worries 1 copy

In Love In Vain (from Centennial Summer) (1946) 1 copy

Just you watch my step 1 copy

Can't Help Singing (1944) 1 copy

A night with Jerome Kern / A night with Sigmund Romberg 1 copy

Show Boat Highlights / Songs from Music in the Air / Roberta (2005) 1 copy

Show Boat (London National Symphony Orchestra) (1993) 1 copy

Selections from showboat 1 copy

I Dream Too Much (1935) 1 copy

My castle in the air 1 copy

Show boat original London cast recording 1 copy

Jerome Kern treasury 1 copy

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes ; When Your Heart's On Fire ; T.B. Harms Choral Publications ; Four Part Song for Female Voices… 1 copy

Music from Jerome Kern's Showboat & Roberta 1 copy

Look for the Silver Lining 1 copy

They Didn't Believe Me 1 copy

I've Told Every Little Star ; T.B. Harms Choral Publications ; Three-Part Chorus or Trio ; S.S.A. 1 copy

Make-Believe ; T.B. Harms Choral Publications ; Three Part Chorus or Trio ; S.S.A. 1 copy

Song Is You, The ; T.B. Harms Choral Publications ; Three-Part Chorus (or Trio) ; S.S.A. 1 copy

Touch Of Your Hand, The ; T.B. Harms Choral Publications ; Three-Part Chorus or Trio ; S.S.A. 1 copy

American Songbook Series: Jerome Kern 1 copy

A year from today from "Sitting Pretty" 1 copy

Yesterdays ; T.B. Harms Choral Publications ; Three Part Chorus (or Trio) ; S.S.A. 1 copy

You Are Love ; T.B. Harms Choral Publications ; Three Part Female Chorus ; S.S.A. 1 copy

The Jerome Kern songbook 1 copy

Show Boat (Playbill) [Vol 95 No 4] 1 copy

Show Boat (Playbill) [Vol 95 No 8] 1 copy

Babes in the Wood from "Very Good Eddie" 1 copy

Leave It To Jane (1958 Off-Broadway Revival) 1 copy

Sitting Pretty from "Sitting Pretty" 1 copy

The Collected Songs, Volume 14: 1918, Part 2, for Voice and Piano [songs from Oh Lady! Lady!] 1 copy

Singer's Edition Jerome Kern (Low Voice) (1988) 1 copy

Why Was I Born (1929) 1 copy

Joy of Living 1 copy

Sally from the Musical Comedy "Sally" 1 copy

The Night was Made for Love Canzonetta from The Cat and the Fiddle 1 copy

The Last Time I Saw Paris (from Lady Be Good) (1940) — Composer — 1 copy

Day Dreaming 1 copy

Dearly Beloved (from You Were Never Lovelier) (1942) 1 copy

I've Told Ev' ry Little Star (from Music in the Air) (1932) 1 copy

Can't help lovin' dat man [vocal score] : three part female chorus (S. S. A.) 1 copy

The Touch of Your Hand (from Roberta) 1 copy

Sunny: A Musical Comedy (1934) 1 copy

The Collected Songs, Vol. 16: 1919, for Voice and Piano 1 copy

The collected Songs, Vol. 15: 1918 - Part 3, for Voice and Piano 1 copy

The Collected Songs, Volume 13: 1918, Part 1, for Voice and Piano [songs from Head Over Heels and Toot Toot 1 copy

Sitting Pretty (1990 Studio Cast) (1992) 1 copy

The Collected Songs, Volume 4: 1911, for Voice and Piano [Love is Like a Little Rubber Band and 13 Other songs] 1 copy

The Best of Cocktail Piano Solos [music] (2002) 1 copy

the music of jerome kern (1961) 1 copy

Improvisation on Jerome Kern's "The Way You Look Tonight" and "Lovely to Look At"; Piano Solo, arranged by Max Lanner… 1 copy

The Collected Songs, Volume 1: 1906-1907, for Voice and Piano [The Subway Express and 13 Other songs] 1 copy

The Collected Songs, Volume 2: 1908, for Voice and Piano [Meet Her With a Taximeter and 13 Other songs] 1 copy

The Collected Songs, Volume 3: 1909-10, for Voice and Piano [By the Blue Lagoon and 8 Other songs] 1 copy

The Collected Songs, Volume 5: 1912, for Voice and Piano [The Ragtime Restaurant and 16 Other songs] 1 copy

The Collected Songs, Volume XII (12): 1917, Part 2, for Voice and Piano [songs from Oh, Boy! And Miss 1917 1 copy

The Collected Songs, Volume 6: 1913, Part 1, for Voice and Piano [Katy-Did and 15 Other songs] 1 copy

The Collected Songs, Volume 7: 1913-14, for Voice and Piano [Love is Like a Violin And 10 Other Songs] 1 copy

The Collected Songs, Volume 8: 1915, Part 1, for Voice and Piano [Those 'Come Hither' Eyes and 11 Other… 1 copy

The Collected Songs, Volume 9: 1915, Part II 1 copy

The Collected Songs, Volume X (10): 1916, for Voice and Piano: Ten Songs From Have a Heart, Twelve Songs 1 copy

The Collected Songs, Volume XI (11): 1917, for Voice and Piano [songs from Leave It to Jane and Love O' Mike] 1 copy

Life Upon The Wicked Stage (1951) 1 copy

The First 100 Years 1 copy

A Lonesome Road - Paul Robeson sings spirituals and songs 1 copy

Jerome Kern : Show Boat * Very Good Eddie * Roberta (American Musicals) (1981) 1 copy

Jerome Kern Showcase 1 copy

[Mark Twain] Mississippi Suite : A Tone Journey | Andre Kostelanetz and Orchestra (Columbia Masterworks) [Vinyl LP… 1 copy

Scenario for orchestra, on themes from Show boat 1 copy

Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man 1 copy

Second Jerome Kern song album from his famous musical plays 1 copy

It's easy to play Jerome Kern[arranged by Frank Booth] (1999) 1 copy

The Music of Jerome Kern for Trumpet: Twenty-four of Kern's Greatest Melodies (1990) 1 copy

George Feyer and His Orchestra Plays Jerome Kern 1 copy

Kiri sings Kern 1 copy

A Jerome Kern Showcase by Jerome Kern (1992-01-01) (1992) 1 copy

Swing Time Fred Astaire Ginger Rogers 1936 Piano Selection Sheet Music Piano Solo (1936) 1 copy

Sunny: The Musical Comedy 1 copy

Music in the air 1 copy

Roberta / The Vagabond King [sound recording] (2002) 1 copy

Sunny / Show Boat (Original 1928 London Cast) / Lido Lady [3 on 1] 1 copy

Melodies of Jerome Kern Volume 2 1 copy

Jerome Kern: Till The Clouds Roll By LP VG Canada 1 copy

Melodies of Jerome Kern Volume 1 (2001) 1 copy

Sure Thing: The Jerome Kern Songbook (1994) 1 copy

Porgy and Bess/Show Boat 1 copy

Ping Pong Percussion of Jerome Kern - Pirouette RFM66 - stereo 1 copy

The Jerome Kern album; for one piano, four hands 1 copy

Jerome Kern: Master of Melody 1 copy

They didn't believe me 1 copy

The Ultimate Show Boat, 1928 - 1947 (Original, Revival and Studio Cast Anthology) 1 copy

Jerome Kern Melodies 1 copy

The library of Jerome Kern, New York city ... to be sold ... January seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth 1 copy

All Through the Day 1 copy

Centennial Summer, limited-edition CD 1 copy

A Collector's Show Boat 1 copy

Show Boat: Original 1946 Broadway Cast Recording 1 copy

Jerome Kern The complete organ player (1990) 1 copy

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Associated Works

Show Boat [1951 film] (1951) — Composer — 107 copies

Roberta [1935 film] (1935) — Original play — 35 copies

You Were Never Lovelier [1942 film] (1942) — Music — 32 copies

A Swingin' Affair! (1957) — Songwriter — 17 copies

Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Jerome Kern Songbook — Songwriter — 10 copies

The Wonderful Edison Time Machine: A Celebration of Life (1999) — Contributor, some editions — 9 copies

Lady Be Good [1941 film] (1991) — Composer — 5 copies

Nightclub (2004) — Composer — 5 copies

Can't Help Singing [1944 film] — Composer — 4 copies

Spider Man [1965 studio album] (1965) — Composer — 2 copies

Best of Broadway: Music of the Night — Composer — 1 copy

BBC Proms 2012 : Prom 59 : The Broadway Sound [video recording] (2012) — Composer — 1 copy

3 Films: Drama 1 copy

BBC Proms 2021 : Prom 02 : The Golden Age of Broadway [sound recording] (2021) — Composer — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name: Kern, Jerome
Legal name: Kern, Jerome David
Birthdate: 1885-01-27
Date of death: 1945-11-11
Burial location: Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum Hartsdale, Westchester County, New York, USA
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
Place of death: New York, New York, USA
Places of residence: New York, New York, USA
Newark, New Jersey, USA
Education: Newark High School
New York College of Music
Occupations: composer
Relationships: Hammerstein II, Oscar (collaborator)
Organizations: American Academy of Arts and Letters (Music, 1945)

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Show Boat (1962 Studio Cast) by Jerome Kern

Track Listings
1 Overture
2 Cotton Blossom
3 Where's The Mate For Me?/Make Believe
4 Ol' Man River
5 Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
6 Life Upon The Wicked Stage
7 You Are Love
8 Finale Act I
9 Opening Act II (Sports Of Gay Chicago)
10 Why Do I Love You?
11 Bill
12 After The Ball
13 Finale Act II: Ol' Man River (Reprise)

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carptrash | May 2, 2024 |

Till the Clouds Roll By (c.1) (vhs) by Jerome Kern

Life of Broadway musical composer Jerome Kern.

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I'm Old Fashioned by Jerome Kern

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VPALib | Mar 6, 2019 |

Jerome Kern Songbook: The Words and Music of 50 of… by Jerome Kern

This extraordinary volume contains music of Jerome Kern, the great American composer of popular music and musical theater. As the subtitle indicates, words and music are included for "50 of his best loved songs" -- these being from the late 1920s through 1945. The piano music is fairly simple, and with indicated chords, provide a ready basis for improvisation. Among the songs included are Ol' Man River, Can't Help Lovin Dat Man (both from the musical Showboat), I Won't Dance, Make Believe, Smoke Gets in your Eyes, The Song Is You, All the Things You Are, and The Way You Look Tonight. Time was that most of these numbers would be staple fare in cocktail lounges and dance halls.… (more)