Jerry Garcia's Middle Finger: Lorenz Hart

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Thursday, January 14, 2021

Per wiki, The Great American Songbook is "the canon of significant early-20th-century American jazz standards and popular songs". It is put out by The Great American Songbook Foundation, fittingly enough.

I have so damn much to learn about this stuff. It's just a gaping hole in my (admittedly limited) musicological understanding.

I just fell into the rabbit hole, so let me report here the tunes from the GAS that I understand Garcia to have engaged.

Year	Song title	Composer(s)	Lyricist(s)

1930	"Georgia on My Mind"	Hoagy Carmichael	Stuart Gorrell

A Good Man Is Hard To Find

Lazybones

1944	"Long Ago (and Far Away)"	Jerome Kern	Ira Gershwin

1959	"My Favorite Things"	Richard Rodgers	Oscar Hammerstein II

1937	"My Funny Valentine"	Richard Rodgers	Lorenz Hart

1927	"Ol' Man River"	Jerome Kern	Oscar Hammerstein II

1936	"Pennies From Heaven"	Arthur Johnston	Johnny Burke

Russian Lullaby

1953	"Satin Doll"	Duke Ellington	Johnny Mercer

1933	"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"	Jerome Kern	Otto Harbach

1949	"Some Enchanted Evening"	Richard Rodgers	Oscar Hammerstein II

1928	"Stardust"	Hoagy Carmichael	Mitchell Parish

1934	"Summertime"	George Gershwin	DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin

That Lucky Old Sun

The Man I Love