Table of Contents

* Foreword by Deems Taylor * Prologue * Victor Herbert * George M. Cohan * Rudolf Friml, Otto Harbach * Sigmund Romberg * Jerome Kern * Irving Berlin * George and Ira Gershwin * Vincent Youmans * Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart * B.G. DeSylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson * Cole Porter * Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz, Dorothy Fields * E.Y. Harburg, Vernon Duke, Harold Arlen, Burton Lane * Harold Rome * Kurt Weill * Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II * Leonard Bernstein * Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe * Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green * Frank Loesser, Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, Meredith Wilson * Bob Merrill * Stephen Sondheim * Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick * Charles Strouse, Lee Adams, Martin Charnin * Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh, Michael Stewart * Jerry Herman * John Kander and Fred Ebb * Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt; Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion; Galt Mac Dermot; Burt Bacharach and Hal David * Sherman Edwards; Gretchen Cryer and Nancy Ford; Gary Geld and Peter Udell; Stephen Schwartz * Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey; Charlie Smalls; Marvin Hamlisch, Edward Kleban, Carole Bayer Sager; Elizabeth Swados; Carol Hall

About the Author

Stanley Green, a lecturer, radio commentator, magazine writer, and editor, has authored Starring Fred Astaire, The World of Musical Comedy, The Rodgers and Hammerstein Story, and Ring Bells! Sing Songs!:Broadway Musicals in the 1930's.