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Encyclopedia > Vernon Duke

Vernon Duke (1903-1969), composer/songwriter, wrote such favorites as "I Can't Get Started" with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, "April In Paris" with lyrics by E.Y. ("Yip") Harburg (1932), and "What Is There To Say" for The Ziegfeld Follies of 1934 also with Harburg. He wrote the words and music for "Autumn in New York" (1934). He was born Vladimir Dukelsky on October 10, 1903, in Parafianovo, Belarus, then Russia. He studied at the Kiev Conservatory. He arrived in the United States in 1921. His first full Broadway score was for a 1932 revue called "Walk a Lttle Faster." His first full musical comedy was "Cabin in the Sky" in 1940. 1903 has the latest occurring solstices and equinoxes for 400 years, because the Gregorian calendar hasnt had a leap year for seven years or a century leap year since 1600. ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ... George (left) and Ira Gershwin Ira Gershwin (born Israel Gershowitz) (December 6, 1896 - August 17, 1983) American lyricist, collaborator with, and brother of George Gershwin He is interred in the Westchester Hills Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. ... 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... 1934 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... October 10 is the 283rd day of the year (284th in Leap years). ... 1903 has the latest occurring solstices and equinoxes for 400 years, because the Gregorian calendar hasnt had a leap year for seven years or a century leap year since 1600. ... 1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... This article is about the street in New York City. ... 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...


Musical theater credits

  • 1932 - Walk a Little Faster (lyrics by E.Y. "Yip" Harburg)
    • "April in Paris"
    • "A Penny for Your Thoughts"
    • "Off Again, On Again"
    • "Speaking of Love"
    • "Where Have We Met Before?"
  • 1940 - Cabin in the Sky (lyrics by John La Touche)
    • "Taking a Chance on Love"
    • "Cabin in the Sky"
    • "Honey in the Honeycomb"
    • "Love Me Tomorrow"
  • 1941 - "Banjo Eyes" (lyrics by John La Touche and Harold Adamson)
    • "We're Having a Baby"
    • "Who Started the Rhumba?"
    • "A Nickel to My Name"
  • 1942 - "The Lady Comes Across" (lyrics by John La Touche)
    • "Summer Is A-Commin' In"
    • "You Took Me By Surprise"
    • "This Is Where I Came In"
    • "Lady"
  • 1944 - "Jackpot" (lyrics by Howard Dietz)
    • "What Happened"
    • "Sugarfoot"
    • "I've Got a One-Track Mind"
    • "I Kissed My Girl Goodbye"
  • 1944 - "Sadie Thompson" (lyrics by Howard Dietz)
    • "The Love I Long For"
    • "Poor as a Church Mouse"
    • "When You Live on an Island"
  • 1952 - "Two's Company" (lyrics by Ogden Nash and Sammy Cahn)
    • "It Just Occurred to Me"
    • "Roundabout"
    • "Out of the Clear Blue Sky"
    • "Haunted Hot Spot"
    • "Just Like a Man"
  • 1956 - "The Littlest Revue" (music also by others - Duke lyrics by Ogden Nash)
    • "I Want to Fly Now (and Pay Later)"
    • "Summer Is A-Comin' In"
    • "Good Little Girls"
    • "Love Is Still in Town"
    • "You're Far from Wonderful"
    • "Madly in Love"
Musical theater (or theatre) is a form of theatre combining music, songs, dance, and spoken dialogue. ... ... John La Touche (born November 13, 1917, in Richmond, Virginia, died August 7, 1956 in Calais, Vermont) was an American musical lyricist. ... John La Touche (born November 13, 1917, in Richmond, Virginia, died August 7, 1956 in Calais, Vermont) was an American musical lyricist. ... Harold Adamson (1906-1980) was an American lyricist during the 1930s and 1940s. ... John La Touche (born November 13, 1917, in Richmond, Virginia, died August 7, 1956 in Calais, Vermont) was an American musical lyricist. ... Jackpot is: A former British comic. ... Howard Dietz (September 8, 1896 - July 30, 1983) was an American lyric writer and librettist. ... Sadie Thompson is a 1928 film which tells the story of a fallen woman who comes to the island of Pago Pago to start a new life, but encounters a zealous missionary who wants to force her back to her former life in San Francisco. ... Howard Dietz (September 8, 1896 - July 30, 1983) was an American lyric writer and librettist. ... Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet best known for writing pithy, funny, light verse. ... Sammy Cahn (June 18, 1913 - January 15, 1993) was a songwriter and musician, playing the piano and violin. ... Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet best known for writing pithy, funny, light verse. ...

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Great Performances . Artists . Vernon Duke | PBS (323 words)
Duke's parents were Alexander and Anna Kopyloff Dukelsky; his father was a civil engineer.
Duke began to study music at seven and wrote a ballet score at eight.
Duke visited the U.S. in 1921, where he met Gershwin, who encouraged him to write popular music and suggested his pseudonym.
Balzac's Paris - A Guided Tour (717 words)
The Vernon Duke Collection is especially rich in chronicles, maps, guidebooks and other studies of life and manners in Paris, dating from the reign of Louis XVI to the end of the belle époque.
The Vernon Duke Collection’s fine set of his Les Nuits de Paris, ou le spectateur nocturne, in 14 volumes, were published anonymously in London, 1788, with a 15th volume published in Paris in 1790.
The Vernon Duke Collection is rich in guide books written in French and English that describe the physical and institutional landscape of Paris during the period when Balzac was creating his fictional Paris.
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