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Vincent Youmans

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Composer 1898–1946

Vincent Millie Youmans (September 27, 1898 – April 5, 1946) was an American Broadway composer and producer. A leading Broadway composer of his day, Youmans collaborated with virtually all the greatest lyricists on Broadway: Ira Gershwin, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Irving Caesar, Anne Caldwell, Leo Robin, Howard Dietz, Clifford Grey, Billy Rose, Edward Eliscu, Edward Heyman, Harold Adamson, Buddy DeSylva and Gus Kahn. Youmans' early songs are remarkable for their economy of melodic material: two-, three- or four-note phrases are constantly repeated and varied by subtle harmonic or rhythmic changes. In later years, however, he turned to longer musical sentences and more rhapsodic melo…

Also credited on6 works

No, No, Nanette
Hit The Deck!
Take A Chance
Mary Jane McKane
Rainbow
Wildflower

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In the literature8 passages

  • It has been suggested to me and quite correctly that romance without feeling gives us Vincent Youmans and feeling without romance gives us Harold Pinter. But feeling is the first and most important element.ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
  • Vincent Youmans’ Hit the Deck! was second only to No, No, Nanette as the most popular of the composer’s 12 Broadway musicals. Based on the 1922 play Shore Leave, the show was about a Newport, Rhode Island, coffee-shop owner known as Looloo (Louise Groody, the previous Nanette), who is so totally smitten with sailor Bilge Smith (Charles Ki…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • An initial pair of producers intended to musicalize Lost Horizon by using unpublished songs from the trunk of the late Vincent Youmans and wanted Walter Kerr (who later panned the show) to direct. The second pair of producers hired Harry Warren, the veteran film composer, to write the music to lyrics by Lawrence and Lee. Shangri-La was an…ebooks/Mandelbaum, Ken/Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum.txt
  • Still, one set per act made everything easier, especially in three-act pieces. The classic thus is No, No, Nanette (1925), with a score composed by Vincent Youmans to the lyrics of Irving Caesar and Otto Harbach and a book by Harbach and Frank Mandel. A farce about a Bible publisher who is keeping three penniless young ladies in separate…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt
  • This brings us to just about 1920, when Kern, Berlin, Cole Porter, and Hirsch are joined by Vincent Youmans, the Gershwins, Rodgers and Hart, and De Sylva, Brown, and Henderson, as the Golden Age takes wing. A bit of backtracking, now, with another elusive item, Early Kern (Shadowland). First issued on cassette and only later on CD (with…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt
  • * Caldwell at her best is deft and delightful, but her hit tunes—“Ka-lu-a,” “I Know That You Know” (written with Vincent Youmans)—faded early on, and none of her shows achieved classic status. Then, too, it took one generation after Caldwell for the veteran Dorothy Fields and the newcomer Betty Comden to promote the notion of women writer…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt

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