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are here, but you won't find the
heart-rending words to "Far From
the Home I Love," the most sadly
beautiful song from that musical, both
lyrically and musically.
In the section on Noel Coward,
you'll find plenty of lyrics, but not the
words to one of his most touching
songs, "If Love Were All."
Although there are sins of omission,
and even some of commission (what is
dreck like Leslie Bricusse and Anthony
Newley's "The Candy Man" doing
here?), there is far more to celebrate
than denigrate.
The fact that Gottlieb and Kimball
have included the often-ignored verses
to popular lyrics is a cause for joy in
itself Who knew that Yip Harburg's
verse to "Happiness Is Just a Thing
Called Joe" even existed, or that it was
brimming with such sparkling hope?
The refrain to Oscar Hammerstein's
"The Last Time I Saw Paris" is one the
most heartbreaking lyrics he commit-
ted to paper, and the words combine
seamlessly with Jerome Kern's 1941
wistful melody. But who knew that
Hammerstein wrote two piercingly
plaintive verses, which bid adieu to a
once-merry city overrun by the Nazis?
There are other interesting tidbits
included in the brief bios of these lyri-
cists. For instance, Howard Dietz, who
penned the words to "Alone Together"
and "That's Entertainment," was a fel-
low student of George Gershwin in
high school and a chum of Lorenz
Hart and Oscar Hammerstein at
Columbia. And although Dietz was a
well-respected lyricist, his day job was
as an MGM executive.
Yip Harburg, whose work ranged
from the starry ecstasy of "April in
Paris" to the supremely clever "If I
Only Had a Brain" and the perennial
favorite "Somewhere Over the
Rainbow," sat next to Ira Gershwin in
classes at New York's City College. We
learn too that Edward Heyman, who
wrote the desolately lonesome lyrics to
"I Cover the Waterfront," caught the
lyric-writing bug while working on
college musicals at the University of
Michigan.
As intriguing as these bits of trivia
are, there are also gaping holes in the
biographies. There is no psychological
probing, no illumination into the per-
sonalities of these lyricists.
It would be revealing to the reader,
for example, to mention that Lorenz
Hart's superficially happy but ulti-
mately melancholy lyrics probably
stemmed from the fact that he was
deeply self-conscious about his short

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Hammerstein, Richard Rodgers,
Lorenz Hart, Harold Arlen,
Dorothy Fields, George and Ira
Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Hoagy
Carmichael, Johnny Mercer, Harry
Warren, Jule Styne, Frank Loesser,
Stephen Sondheim, John Kander
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and the immigrant world in which
they grew up.
Covering the era from Show
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