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Jumbo
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Jumbo (1935), a musical comedy by Ben
Hecht, Charles
MacArthur (book), Richard
Rodgers (music), Lorenz
Hart (lyrics). [
Hippodrome, 233 perf.] Two feuding circus magnates, Matthew Mulligan ( W. J. McCarthy) and John A. Considine ( Arthur Sinclair), are dismayed to learn that their children, Matt Jr. ( Donald Novis) and Mickey Considine ( Gloria Grafton), have fallen in love. Considine's drinking and his imminent bankruptcy compound his problems. The money difficulties are solved when his unorthodox press agent, Claudius B. Bowers ( Jimmy
Durante), burns down Considine's house, allowing him to collect the insurance. And when the youngsters bring about a reconciliation between the two older men, Considine promises to put the bottle on the shelf.
Notable songs: Little Girl Blue; The Most Beautiful Girl in the World; My Romance. The Billy
Rose show marked Rodgers and Hart's return from a four‐year stay in Hollywood. It was also the last legitimate production to play the famed Hippodrome, which Rose reconstructed to make it resemble a circus arena. Gilbert Gabriel of the
American found the entertainment “chockful of so many thrills, musical, scenic, gymnastic and humanitarian, it deserves an endowment as an institution.”
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Blue yodeler: Jimmie Rodgers.(Legends)(Biography)
Magazine article from: Southern Cultures; 12/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...April 1926, that a man seeing Jimmie Rodgers in a return engagement concert...town again! The nickname stuck. Jimmie and his wife and child moved to...in show business got hurt. Not Jimmie Rodgers. Not the Blue Yodeler. America...
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Profile: Life and music of Jimmie Rodgers
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 8/8/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Profile: Life and music of Jimmie Rodgers Host: STEVE INSKEEP...s first superstar. Jimmie Rodgers was a musical...hard to classify, says Rodgers biographer Nolan Porterfield...wrote in her memoir that Jimmie bought records, quote...
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100th Anniversary of Jimmie Rodgers' Birth Commemorated
PR Newswire; 7/7/1997; 700+ words
; ...Bob Dylan's CD, "The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers: A Tribute," dedicated to The...100th anniversary of the birth of Jimmie Rodgers (September 8, 1897...others join Dylan on "The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers." Jerry Garcia's final...
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Jimmie Rodgers, Local Yodel
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/27/1997; ; 700+ words
; Jimmie Rodgers was born and bred in Meridian...tribute album, "The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers." This month has...later with Elvis Presley. Rodgers biographer Nolan Porterfield...tracks on "The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers" (Egyptian/Columbia...
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Steve Forbert pays tribute to Jimmie Rodgers _ the rock 'n' roller
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 10/4/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...album to Singing Brakeman Jimmie Rodgers. Any Old Time by singer...What gets me about Jimmie is he's just the real...relevant tribute album to Rodgers was tricky because many...steveforbert.com/ Jimmie Rodgers Web site: http...
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The Story of Jimmie Rodgers.(The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers: A Legacy in Country Music)(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: California Bookwatch; 9/1/2009; 436 words
; The Story of Jimmie Rodgers Jocelyn R. Neal Indiana University...iupress.indiana.edu The Story of Jimmie Rodgers is for any music collection...offers an examination of the songs of Jimmie Rodgers, which have been played and...
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Steve Forbert Any Old Time: Songs of Jimmie Rodgers.(Sound Recording Review) (sound recording review)
Magazine article from: Sing Out!; 3/22/2003; ; 556 words
; ...Tennessee when the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers, country music's first big stars...death from tuberculosis in 1933, Rodgers created a timeless body of work...legacy, Steve Forbert who shares Jimmie's hometown of Meridian, Mississippi...
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Do I hear a yodel?(Jimmie Rodgers)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: American Theatre; 9/1/2006; ; 509 words
; ...of the legacy of the original Father of Country, Jimmie Rodgers. Back by popular demand is the theatre's Waiting for a Train: The Life and Songs of Jimmie Rodgers (Sept. 9-Oct. 7), chronicling the balladeer...
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The Essential Jimmie Rodgers
Magazine article from: The Village Voice; 12/28/1999; ; 380 words
; JIMMIE RODGERS The Essential Jimmie Rodgers RCA Rodgers isn't the most accessible of totems-read Nolan Porterfield on his "raw energy" and "driving" guitar and you'll think somebody made a mistake at the pressing plant. But he didn...
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Discos. (nuevas grabaciones musicales de grupo Ketama y cantante Luis Delgado; disco en homenaje a Jimmie Rodgers)(TT: Records) (TA: new sound recordings by group Ketama and singer Luis Delgado; tribute record to Jimmie Rodgers)
Magazine article from: Tribuna de Actualidad; 10/20/1997; ; 504 words
; ...repiten el xito de De ak a Ketama. 'The songs of Jimmie Rodgers. A Tribute'. Varios (Egyptian Records/Columbia...estrena en el mercado con un exquisito homenaje a Jimmie Rodgers; para muchos, el padre de la msica country. Junto...
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Rodgers, Jimmie
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
Jimmie Rodgers Singer, songwriter, guitarist For the Record … Jimmie Rodgers was the first country...offer a similar observation. Rodgers ’ s informal approach...themselves in times of adversity. Jimmie Rodgers was genuine. He...
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Jimmie Rodgers
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Jimmie Rodgers Jimmie Rodgers (1897-1933), known as "The Mississippi Blue Yodeler" and "The Singing Brakeman,"was the first nationally-known country music star. He influenced many later performers from Hank Snow and Ernest Tubb to...
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Davis, Jimmie
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
...1950s. Over his 101 years of life, Jimmie Davis became a little-known but...quoted in You Are My Sunshine: The Jimmie Davis Story. "Because we didn...Mississippi's "Blue Yodeler," Jimmie Rodgers, Davis emerged as a natural pick...
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Gilmore, Jimmie Dale
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
Jimmie Dale Gilmore Singer, songwriter, guitarist A Product of Austin and Nashville Jimmie Dale Gilmore was born in the tiny town...folk to his namesake, early country star Jimmie Rodgers, as well as the performers he cites as...
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Tubb, Ernest
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
...recording artists, like Jimmie Rodgers, and the latest generation...earnest efforts, Mrs. Rodgers agreed to help Tubb...marriage) Justin Wayne, Rodger Dale (deceased...Records in 1936. Using Jimmie Rodgers ’ s guitar...
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