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Richard Rogers
12+ albums
countryamerican
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Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902, Arverne, Queens, New York City – December 30, 1979, New York City) was an American composer of the music for more than 900 songs and 40 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II. His compositions have had a significant impact on popular music down to the present day, and have an enduring broad appeal. Rodgers and Marvin Hamlisch are the only persons to have won an Oscar, Grammy, Emmy, Tony Award, and Pulitzer Prize. Life and career Born into a prosperous Jewish family, Richard Rodgers was the son of Mortimer Rodgers, a prominent physician who had changed the family name from Rojazinsky, and Mamie Levy. Richard began playing the piano at age six. He attended P.S. 10, Townsend Harris Hall and DeWitt Clinton High School. Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, and Rodgers's later collaborator Oscar Hammerstein II all attended Columbia University. In 1921, Rodgers shifted his studies to the Institute of Musical Art (now Juilliard).[1] Rodgers was influenced by composers like Victor Herbert and Jerome Kern, as well as by the operettas his parents took him to see on Broadway when he was a child. Work with Hart In 1919, Richard met Lorenz Hart, thanks to Phillip Leavitt, a friend of Richard's older brother. Rodgers and Hart struggled for years in the field of musical comedy, writing a number of amateur shows. They made their
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Can't Stop Loving You (Original Marshall Jeferson Version)
2152Can’t Stop Loving You (Original Marshall Jefferson Version)
1953Can't Stop Loving You (Original Marshall Jefferson Version)
1274I Have Dreamed
1115Can't Stop Loving You - Krystal Klear 1989 Remix
1066Can't Stop Loving You - Krystal Klear Paradise Remix
1057All I Want (Hitmans Dub)
1048Can't Stop Loving You
959All I Want
9010Dreamcatcher
80albums
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Can't Stop Loving You (Krystal Klear Remixes)
Can't Stop
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RETURN TO THE PLAYBOY MANSION
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Clair De Lune & Sister Moon
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Defected Presents Dimitri From Paris (Return To The Playboy Mansion) Sexytime
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Dreamcatcher
CAN'T STOP LOVING YOU
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Dimitri from Paris - Return to the Playboy Mansion - [Disc 2] - Sexytime
Mixmag Live! Vol. 3
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Dimitri from Paris - Return to the Playboy Mansion - Disc 2 - Sexytime
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Return To The Playboy Mansion - SEXYTIME
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You'll never walk alone (Live)