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    Vernon Duke (10 October [O.S. 27 September] 1903 – 16 January 1969) was a Russian-born American composer and songwriter who also wrote under his birth...
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  • name Robert Duke, songwriter pseudonym of Joe Meek Robin Duke, Canadian actress and comedian Steve Duke, American saxophonist Vernon Duke, Russian composer...
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  • "Autumn Leaves" Joseph Kosma Johnny Mercer 1934 "Autumn In New York" Vernon Duke Vernon Duke 1949 "Baby, It's Cold Outside" Frank Loesser Frank Loesser 1949...
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    which featured "silly, sinful, and satirical" songs by Sheldon Harnick, Vernon Duke, John La Touche, Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hart and Marc Blitzstein, among...
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    relationship with his teacher was written by Gershwin's close friend Vernon Duke, also a Schillinger student, in an article for the Musical Quarterly...
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  • April in Paris (song) (category Songs with music by Vernon Duke)
    "April in Paris" is a popular song composed by Vernon Duke with lyrics by Yip Harburg in 1932 for the Broadway musical Walk a Little Faster. The original...
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  • Autumn in New York (song) (category Songs with music by Vernon Duke)
    composed by Vernon Duke in Westport, Connecticut in the summer of 1934. It was written without a commission or for a specific show, but Duke offered it...
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    and Hart, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Richard A. Whiting, Vernon Duke, Noël Coward and George and Ira Gershwin. Short also championed African-American...
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  • Vernon Duke "On the Wrong Side of the Railroad Tracks" with Duke Ellington "Ragtime Romeo" with James Mundy "Summer Is A-Comin' In" with Vernon Duke "Surrealist"...
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  • Paramount: in Hollywood, Harburg worked with composers Harold Arlen, Vernon Duke, Jerome Kern, Jule Styne, and Burton Lane, and later wrote the lyrics...
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    Vernon A. Carey Jr. (born February 25, 2001) is an American professional basketball player who last played for Karşıyaka Basket of the Basketbol Süper...
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  • "Everything Happens to Me" (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) - 3:15 "April in Paris" (Vernon Duke, E.Y. Harburg) – 3:12 "Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose...
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  • B. Smith) "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell) "Autumn in New York" (Vernon Duke) "I Could Write a Book" (Lorenz Hart, Richard...
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    focused on the songbooks of popular composers (André Previn Plays Songs by Vernon Duke, 1958; André Previn Plays Songs by Harold Arlen, 1960; Ballads. Solo...
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    as just reward for past contributions." Based on the 1940 musical by Vernon Duke and John La Touche, Cabin in the Sky tells the story of Petunia (Ethel...
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    military revues and shows. Caesar was discharged from the service in 1945. Vernon Duke, the composer of Autumn in New York, April in Paris, and Taking a Chance...
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  • by Vernon Duke is a piano solo, jazz album by André Previn. It was recorded in August 1958. It was intended as a homage to jazz composer Vernon Duke. It...
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  • Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer, Vernon Duke, and Rodgers and Hart. She has paid vocal tribute in her concerts to...
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    poetry by Walter Benton that was narrated by John Dall with music by Vernon Duke. In 1951, Atlantic was one of the first independent labels to press records...
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  • Adelson Any Time at All 1964 Baker Knight April in Paris 1950, 1957, 1961 Vernon Duke, Yip Harburg April Played the Fiddle 1940 Johnny Burke, James Monaco...
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  • Waller - Performed by Teddy Wilson "I Can't Get Started" - Written by Vernon Duke & Ira Gershwin - Performed by Lester Young "Sunday (The Day Before My...
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  • which include renditions of the Gershwins' "But Not For Me" and the Vernon Duke standard "Autumn In New York". Writing for All About Jazz, Douglas Payne...
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    (1913–1934), acting twins, drowned in a flood Cathy Downs (1924–1976), actress Vernon Duke (1893–1969), songwriter (later moved) Lion Feuchtwanger (1884–1958),...
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  • Sonny Rollins 8:46 2. "A Night in Tunisia" (afternoon set) Dizzy Gillespie Frank Paparelli 8:16 3. "I Can't Get Started" Ira Gershwin Vernon Duke 4:54...
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    War Bonds, and created stage shows for the Coast Guard with composer Vernon Duke. Dietz saved copies of every document relating to his career, as well...
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  • by Bing Crosby "Après la Bastille" by Mort Shuman "April in Paris" by Vernon Duke and Yip Harburg "April in Paris" by Trickster "Arc de Triomphe" by Teenage...
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    Justin DeYarmond Edison Vernon (born April 30, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist. He is best-known as the primary...
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  • Cole Porter, Kurt Weill, Irving Berlin, Noël Coward, Vincent Youmans, Vernon Duke, Johnny Mercer, Jerome Kern, Ira Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Alan Jay Lerner...
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  • names in the song is "Dukelsky"; this is actually the birth name of Vernon Duke, an American composer. Similarly, Stanisław Moniuszko, Witold Maliszewski...
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  • Follies of 1936 is a musical revue with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, music by Vernon Duke and sketches by Gershwin and David Freedman. The Ziegfeld Follies were...
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