Roger Edens

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• Our associate producer, one Roger Edens, 93 is a great fan of yours, but very displeased with your Boston program. He complains about that Beethoven & Schubert junk and feels it's ruining your career to have to play it. I'm just passing along this opinion for what it's worth. Stick to the moderns, he says.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• 93 Roger Edens (1905–70) was a composer and producer in Hollywood, an important member of Arthur Freed's team at MGM. Edens is perhaps best known for nurturing the talent of the young Judy Garland (they became lifelong friends). He was Associate Producer on a string of successful MGM musicals. Comden and Green's greatest Hollywood success…ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• Cast: Willie Howard, Allen Kearns, Ginger Rogers, William Kent, Ethel Merman, Antonio & Renee DeMarco, Lew Parker, Roger Edens, Red Nichols Orchestraebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Youmans was brought in and provided five new songs, including a raise-the-rafters number for Ethel called “Rise and Shine.” Roger Edens, meanwhile, had gone to work on “Eadie Was a Lady,” preparing a hilarious middle section that gave the number even more sardonic bite. In tone it resembled some of Mae West’s risqué songs from the movies.…ebooks/Kellow, Brian/Ethel Merman_ A Life - Brian Kellow.txt
• On very little notice, she had paged her old friend from the pit of Girl Crazy, Roger Edens (who had since been busy writing and arranging for MGM musicals), to whip up an opening number for her. Called “A Lady with a Song,” it was a bold statement of her down-to-earth performing style, for an audience that might not know a great deal abo…ebooks/Kellow, Brian/Ethel Merman_ A Life - Brian Kellow.txt
• The bulk of the songs in the film were not by Bernstein but by Roger Edens. They included “Prehistoric Man,” “Main Street,” “You’re Awful,” “On the Town,” “Count on Me,” and “That’s All There Is, Folks.” 191 When asked decades later why the score of On the Town was changed so “radically” for the film, Comden responded: “At the time, MGM a…ebooks/Oja, Carol J_/Bernstein Meets Broadway_ Collaborative Art in a Time of War (Broadway Legacies) - Carol J. Oja.txt

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