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Remembering Jule Styne on his birthday πŸŽ‚
πŸ“· Murray Garrett, 1948
With his collaborator, Sammy Cahn.
"Frank's figured it out. He sings the words. The other fellers sing the notes. But we've already worked all that out: The words fit the notes. So sing the words."
Jule Styne talking with Leonard Bernstein at a party, in a great photo by Gordon Parks, 1958
Jerome Robbins, Stephen Sondheim, Gypsy Rose Lee (who said she felt "like a ghost at a banquet"), Arthur Laurents & Jule Styne during rehearsals for Gypsy.
πŸ“· Friedman-Abeles, 1959
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Coffee with Jule Styne β˜•οΈ
πŸ“· Santi Visalli, 1974
Adolph Green, Betty Comden, Judy Holliday & Jule Styne in rehearsal for Bells Are Ringing, 1956
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Dith Pran for the @NYTimes
Jule Styne on the set of Bar Mitzvah Boy, at the 92nd Street Y
Jack Klugman, Jule Styne, Ethel Merman & Stephen Sondheim at the Columbia recording session for the cast album Gypsy, 1959
@NYPL digital collection
Frank Sinatra sings Sammy Cahn & Jule Styne's beautiful "Time After Time" in It Happened in Brooklyn, 1947. It's always a treat to see Jimmy Durante. And the chap playing the piano for Frank off-camera? AndrΓ© Previn.
"I Fall in Love Too Easily" is one of my favourite Jule Styne/Sammy Cahn songs. They wrote it for Frank Sinatra to sing in Anchors Aweigh!, 1945. Nominated for an Oscar, it lost out to Rodgers & Hammerstein's "It Might as Well be Spring"
Judy Holliday & Jule Styne in rehearsal for Bells Are Ringing
πŸ“· Friedman-Abeles, 1956
@NYPL digital collection
Styne wrote the music, & Betty Comden & Adolph Green wrote the book & lyrics.
Jule Styne & Stephen Sondheim by Friedman-Abeles
@NYPL, 1959
Sondheim was hired to write both music & lyrics for Gypsy, but:
"Ethel Merman put her foot down & insisted on Styne. She must have thought, β€˜Look what he did for Carol Channing & Judy Holliday'."
- Charles Troy
Jule Styne & Jerome Robbins at a rehearsal of the Broadway musical "Jerome Robbins' Broadway."
πŸ“· Martha Swope, 1989
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Jule Styne, Adolph Green & Betty Comden attend the premiere of "The Night of the Generals" on February 1, 1967
πŸ“· Ron Galella
"Stynes (or Styne-ese), n. language circa middle 20th century, spoken and understood by only one man."
In her September 21, 1994 obituary for Jule Styne, Eleanor Blau quotes Styne's biographer, Theodore Taylor, from "Jule: The Story of Composer Jule Styne".

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